Pleasant human touch is represented in pregenual anterior cingulate cortex

NeuroImage

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 3427-3432

  Lindgren, Lenita ^a,b   Westling, Göran ^b   Brulin, Christine ^a   Lehtipalo, Stefan ^b   Andersson, Micael ^b   Nyberg, Lars ^b,c  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Brain; FMRI; Human touch; Massage; Pleasantness; Pregenual anterior cingulate cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FORCE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GLOVE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MASSAGE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NERVE POTENTIAL; NORMAL HUMAN; PREGENUAL ANTERIOR CINGULATE CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN SENSATION; TOUCH; VELOCITY; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLEASURE; TOUCH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84855166130     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.11.013     Document Type: Article

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