Clinical effects of insular damage in humans
- 29 May 2010
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Brain Structure and Function
- Vol. 214 (5-6), 397-410
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s00429-010-0256-y
Abstract
Multiple disturbances following lesions of the insula are reviewed in the present article, including those related to autonomic function; gustatory, olfactory, auditory, somatosensory, and multimodal perception, as well as body awareness; the emotion of disgust; mood and willed action, addiction behavior, and language. Given the multiple and varied nature of the impairments revealed by lesion studies, we suggest that the insula, as a multimodal area, has a major role as a convergence zone implicated in the coordination between internal and external information through emotional subjective awareness. Methodological issues are discussed with attention paid to lesion etiology, and lesions involving adjacent areas to the insular cortex.This publication has 124 references indexed in Scilit:
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