Diminished emotional sweating in patients with limbic encephalitis

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 306, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 16-19

  Asahina, Masato ^a   Fujinuma, Yoshikatsu ^a   Yamanaka, Yoshitaka ^a   Fukushima, Takeshi ^a   Katagiri, Akira ^a   Ito, Shoichi ^a   Kuwabara, Satoshi ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Autonomic nervous system; Emotional sweating; Encephalitis; Limbic system; Skin blood flow

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARITHMETIC; AROUSAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL SWEATING; ENCEPHALITIS; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HAND PALM; HUMAN; HYPERPNEA; IMMUNE MEDIATED ENCEPHALITIS; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; MALE; PARANEOPLASTIC NEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN BLOOD FLOW; SKIN BLOOD VESSEL; SWEAT; SWEATING; TACTILE STIMULATION; VASOCONSTRICTION; VIRUS INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERHIDROSIS; LIMBIC ENCEPHALITIS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SKIN; SWEATING; VASODILATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79958767497     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: 18785883     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2011.04.007     Document Type: Conference Paper

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