Psychological and physiological responses to odor-evoked autobiographic memory

Neuroendocrinology Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 774-780

  Matsunaga, Masahiro ^a   Isowa, Tokiko ^b   Yamakawa, Kaori ^c   Kawanishi, Yoko ^d   Tsuboi, Hirohito ^e   Kaneko, Hiroshi ^d   Sadato, Norihiro ^a   Oshida, Akiko ^f   Katayama, Atsushi ^f   Kashiwagi, Mitsuyoshi ^f   Ohira, Hideki ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b MIE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY BANTANE HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^e KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f KAO CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autobiographic memory; Heart rate; Interleukin 2; Positive mood states; Proust phenomenon; Skin conductance level

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 6; NORADRENALIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MALE; MOOD CHANGE; NORMAL HUMAN; ODOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; SMELLING;

EID: 84857428799     PISSN: 0172780X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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