Forebrain neurocircuitry associated with human reflex cardiovascular control

Frontiers in Physiology

Volumn 6, Issue SEP, 2015, Pages

  Shoemaker, J Kevin ^a   Goswami, Ruma ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Autonomic nervous system; Baroreflex; Cortical autonomic network; Exercise; Insula cortex; Medial prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; CONNECTOME; EXERCISE; FOREBRAIN; HUMAN; INSULA; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; REVIEW; VALSALVA MANEUVER;

EID: 84944740178     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664042X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2015.00240     Document Type: Review

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