Functional brain imaging in gastroenterology: To new beginnings

Nature Reviews Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 565-576

  Omran, Yasser Al ^a   Aziz, Qasim ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROBIOTIC AGENT;

ANTERIOR CINGULATE; AROUSAL; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM FUNCTION DISORDER; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; GASTROENTEROLOGY; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; INSULA; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; NOCICEPTIVE PAIN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT SELECTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; PSYCHOBIOLOGY; RESTING STATE NETWORK; REVIEW; SENSORY NERVE; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPIN LABELING; THALAMUS; THORAX PAIN; VISCERAL PAIN;

BRAIN; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84906888728     PISSN: 17595045     EISSN: 17595053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrgastro.2014.89     Document Type: Review

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