Reduced functional connectivity in the thalamo-insular subnetwork in patients with acute anorexia nervosa

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1772-1781

  Ehrlich, Stefan ^a,b,c   Lord, Anton R ^d,e   Geisler, Daniel ^a   Borchardt, Viola ^d,e   Boehm, Ilka ^a   Seidel, Maria ^a   Ritschel, Franziska ^a   Schulze, Anne ^a   King, Joseph A ^a   Weidner, Kerstin ^a   Roessner, Veit ^a   Walter, Martin ^d,e,f,g  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CARL GUSTAV CARUS   (Germany)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^e Clinical Affective Neuroimaging Laboratory   (Germany)

^f OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^g Center for Behavioral Brain Sciences (CBBS)   (Germany)

Author keywords

Connectivity; FMRI; Network; Posterior insula; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; INTEROCEPTION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NETWORK BASED STATISTIC; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PAIN; POSTERIOR INSULA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; RESTING STATE NETWORK; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THALAMUS; ACUTE DISEASE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; NERVE TRACT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL MODEL; YOUNG ADULT;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; THALAMUS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84927691676     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.22736     Document Type: Article

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