Plasticity of plasticity? Changes in the pattern of perceptual correlates of reorganization after amputation

Brain

Volumn 121, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 717-724

  Knecht, S ^a   Henningsen, H ^a   Hohling C ^a   Elbert, T ^b   Flor, H ^c   Pantev, C ^a   Taub, E ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Magnetic source imaging; Perceptual mislocalization; Plasticity; Referred sensation; Somaesthesia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGNOSIA; ARM AMPUTATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION FUNCTION; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PHANTOM PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSATION; TIME;

ACCIDENTS; ADULT; AGED; AMPUTATION; ARM; BONE NEOPLASMS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HEAT; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOSARCOMA; PAIN; PERCEPTION; PHANTOM LIMB; SENSATION; TOUCH; VIBRATION;

EID: 0031976289     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/121.4.717     Document Type: Article

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