The periaqueductal gray controls brainstem emotional motor systems including respiration

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 209, Issue , 2014, Pages 379-405

  Holstege, Gert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Abdominal pressure control; Emotional motor system; Level setting systems; Mating behavior; Micturition; Nucleus retroambiguus; Parturition; Pelvic floor stimulating center; Pelvic organ stimulating center; Periaqueductal gray; Pre B tzinger complex; Vocalization; Vomiting

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PRESSURE; AMBIGUUS NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRTH; BLADDER SPHINCTER; BRAIN STEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DEFECATION; EJACULATION; EMOTIONALITY; FORCED EXPIRATION; MOTONEURON; MOTOR SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAPHE MAGNUS NUCLEUS; RESPIRATION CONTROL; SNEEZING; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; THORAX PRESSURE; TRIGEMINAL NUCLEUS; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM; VOCALIZATION; VOMITING; ANIMAL; BREATHING; EMOTION; HUMAN; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN STEM; EMOTIONS; HUMANS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY; RESPIRATION;

EID: 84926150505     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: 18757855     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-63274-6.00020-5     Document Type: Chapter

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