Taste intensity modulates effective connectivity from the insular cortex to the thalamus in humans

NeuroImage

Volumn 135, Issue , 2016, Pages 214-222

  Yeung, Andy Wai Kan ^a   Tanabe, Hiroki C ^c   Suen, Justin Long Kiu ^a,b   Goto, Tazuko K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b TOKYO DENTAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dynamic causal modeling; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Insular cortex; Sodium chloride; Taste intensity; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CAUSAL MODELING; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONNECTOME; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALTINESS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMELL AND TASTE PARAMETERS; TASTE INTENSITY; THALAMUS; BRAIN CORTEX; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECTS; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE TRACT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; TASTE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CONNECTOME; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TASTE; TASTE PERCEPTION; THALAMUS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84964922687     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.04.057     Document Type: Article

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