title: Neuroscience meets salivary bioscience: An integrative perspective.
abstract: Advances in salivary bioscience enable unique opportunities to explore individual differences in biological mechanisms related to learning and memory, psychiatric disorders, and more recently neurodegenerative diseases, neurotrauma/stroke, pain, and sleep. Sampling oral fluid is not only minimally invasive, but specimens can be collected easily and quickly in clinical and field settings. Salivary analytes allow neuroscientists to index endocrine, autonomic, immune, metabolic, and inflammatory processes within close proximity of discrete behavioral, biological, and social events, which is particularly important to advancing our understanding of human neuroscience. This review provides an update on the advances in salivary bioscience for specialty fields within neuroscience, presents novel salivary analytes of interest to neuroscience and the status of their development, and outlines a procedural framework to facilitate integration of these concepts and methods into neuroscience. (PsycINFO Database Record
authors.affiliation: Arizona State University.
authors.forename: Sabrina K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Segal
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D006801:Humans; D019636:Neurodegenerative Diseases / Q000145:classification / Q000378:metabolism; D009488:Neurosciences / Q000379:methods*; D012463:Saliva / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism / Q000502:physiology; D012469:Salivary Glands / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000378:metabolism / Q000502:physiology; D055291:Salivary alpha-Amylases
chemical_list: D055291:Salivary alpha-Amylases