Reduced activity in the extrastriate visual cortex of individuals with strabismic amblyopia

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 225, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 173-176

  Imamura, Kazuyuki ^a,b,c   Richter, Hans ^a,c,d   Fischer, Håkan ^f   Lennerstrand, Gunnar ^d   Franźen, Ove ^d,e   Rydberg, Agneta ^d   Andersson, Jesper ^a,c   Schneider, Harald ^a,c   Onoe, Hirotaka ^a,b   Watanabe, Yasuyoshi ^a,b   Långström, Bengt ^a,c  

^a JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA BIOSCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^d KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^e UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^f UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

amblyopia; anisometropia; contralateral; hu man; ipsilateral; positron emission tomography; regional cerebral blood flow; strabismus; visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMBLYOPIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRABISMUS; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADULT; AGED; AMBLYOPIA; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STRABISMUS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0030941063     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(97)00211-5     Document Type: Article

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