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Meta-analysis of swallowing-related brain function

By Peter Soros

Sörös P, Inamoto Y, Martin RE. Functional brain imaging of swallowing: An activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis. Hum Brain Mapp 2009. PubMed | PDF
This paper presents the first quantitative voxel-wise meta-analysis of swallowing-related brain function. Data analysis was performed with the activation likelihood estimation (ALE) approach, using the freely available software GingerALE.
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A quantitative, voxel-wise meta-analysis was [...]

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Meta-analysis of swallowing

Sörös P, Inamoto Y, Martin RE. Functional brain imaging of swallowing: An activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis. Hum Brain Mapp. 2008 Dec 23.

Somatosensory processing

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Sörös P, Lalone E, Smith R, Stevens T, Theurer J, Menon R, Martin R. Functional MRI of oropharyngeal air-pulse stimulation. Neuroscience 2008, 153: 1300-1308.
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This fMRI study identified the neural circuitry associated with somatosensory processing of short air pulses delivered to the oral cavity.