The human operculo-insular cortex is pain-preferentially but not pain-exclusively activated by trigeminal and olfactory stimuli

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Lötsch, Jörn ^a   Walter, Carmen ^a   Felden, Lisa ^a   Nöth, Ulrike ^a   Deichmann, Ralf ^a   Oertel, Bruno G ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; VANILLIN; BENZALDEHYDE DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INSULA; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NOCICEPTIVE STIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; OLFACTORY CORTEX; PAIN; SMELLING; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; TRIGEMINAL NERVE; BRAIN MAPPING; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ODOR; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

ADULT; BENZALDEHYDES; BRAIN MAPPING; CARBON DIOXIDE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; ODORS; OLFACTORY PERCEPTION; PAIN; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TRIGEMINAL NERVE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84859297488     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0034798     Document Type: Article

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