Brain energy metabolism in early blind subjects: Neural activity in the visual cortex

Brain Research

Volumn 750, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 235-244

  De Volder, Anne G ^a   Bol, Anne ^a   Blin, Jérôme ^a   Robert, Annie ^a   Arno, Patricia ^a   Grandin, Cécile ^a   Michel, Christian ^a   Veraart, Claude ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

blindness; oxygen metabolism; plasticity; positron emission tomography; synapse; visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY METABOLISM; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BLINDNESS; BRAIN; CARBON RADIOISOTOPES; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; ENERGY METABOLISM; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURONS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; REFERENCE VALUES; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0031056889     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(96)01352-2     Document Type: Article

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