Shifting gustatory thresholds and food cravings during pregnancy as expanding uterine-induced steady potential shifts within the insula: an hypothesis.
A logical extrapolation from the principle that structure dictates function is that transient or anomalous experiences are consequences of simultaneous stimulations of proximal brain regions not typically co-activated. In this paper, the occasional shifts in gustatory threshold during the menstrual...
| Publicado en: | Perceptual & Motor Skills Vol. 92; no. 1; pp. 50 - 53 |
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Ammons Scientific, Ltd.
February 2001
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