Ventromedial prefrontal cortex response to concentrated sucrose reflects liking rather than sweet quality coding

Chemical Senses

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 585-594

  Rudenga, Kristin J ^a,b   Small, Dana M ^b,c  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHN B PIERCE LABORATORY   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

fMRI; Orbitofrontal cortex; Sweet taste; Taq1A; Value; vmPFC

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; CALIBRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; EATING HABIT; EMOTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INSULA; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORBITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SMELLING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SWEETNESS; TASTE; TASTE PREFERENCE; THALAMUS; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

FMRI; ORBITOFRONTAL CORTEX; SWEET TASTE; TAQ1A; VALUE; VMPFC;

ADULT; EATING; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCES; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NONTHERAPEUTIC HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; SUCROSE; TASTE;

EID: 84883046056     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: 14643553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjt029     Document Type: Article

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