Interoceptive awareness changes the posterior insula functional connectivity profile

Brain Structure and Function

Volumn 221, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 1555-1571

  Kuehn, Esther ^a   Mueller, Karsten ^a   Lohmann, Gabriele ^a,b   Schuetz Bosbach, Simone ^a,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Body awareness; fMRI; Functional connectivity; Interoception; Plasticity; Resting state

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ANTERIOR INSULA; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BRAIN FUNCTION; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUNEUS; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FRONTAL OPERCULUM; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEART BEAT; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; INFERIOR TEMPORAL CORTEX; INTEROCEPTION; LATERAL ORBITOFRONTAL CORTEX; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; OCCIPITAL GYRUS; PARIETAL OPERCULUM; POSTERIOR INSULA; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; SECONDARY SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; TEMPORAL CORTEX; BRAIN; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; HEART RATE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

AWARENESS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HEART RATE; HUMANS; INTEROCEPTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE;

EID: 84922361961     PISSN: 18632653     EISSN: 18632661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00429-015-0989-8     Document Type: Article

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