The brain mechanisms underlying the perception of pungent taste of capsaicin and the subsequent autonomic responses

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue JAN2016, 2016, Pages

  Kawakami, Shinpei ^a,b   Sato, Hajime ^a   Sasaki, Akihiro T ^c,d,e   Tanabe, Hiroki C ^f   Yoshida, Yumiko ^c   Saito, Mitsuru ^a,g   Toyoda, Hiroki ^a   Sadato, Norihiro ^c   Kang, Youngnam ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Morinaga and Company Limited   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^d RIKEN   (Japan)

^e OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^f NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autonomic function; Capsaicin; FMRI; Insular cortex; Taste recognition

Indexed keywords

CAPSAICIN; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGESTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GUSTATORY CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; MALE; MIDDLE SHORT GYRUS; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTERIOR SHORT GYRUS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASTE; TASTE ACUITY; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; VISCERO VISCERAL AUTONOMIC REFLEX;

EID: 84956697729     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2015.00720     Document Type: Article

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