How the heart speaks to the brain: Neural activity during cardiorespiratory interoceptive stimulation

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 371, Issue 1708, 2016, Pages

  Hassanpour, Mahlega S ^a   Yan, Lirong ^b   Wang, Danny J J ^b   Lapidus, Rachel C ^d   Arevian, Armen C ^c   Kyle Simmons, W ^a,d   Feusner, Jamie D ^c   Khalsa, Sahib S ^a,d  

^a LAUREATE INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TULSA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac; Emotion; Insula; Interoception; Pharmacological functional magnetic resonance imaging; Respiration

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; COGNITION; DISEASE TREATMENT; MEDICINE; MENTAL HEALTH; NERVOUS SYSTEM; OXYGENATION; RESPIRATION;

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; ISOPRENALINE; OXYGEN;

ADULT; BLOOD; BRAIN CORTEX; BREATHING RATE; DRUG EFFECTS; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; INTEROCEPTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADRENERGIC BETA-AGONISTS; ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; INTEROCEPTION; ISOPROTERENOL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN; RESPIRATORY RATE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84991501099     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2016.0017     Document Type: Article

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