Role of the corpus callosum in the somatosensory activation of the ipsilateral cerebral cortex: An fMRI study of callosotomized patients

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 3983-3994

  Fabri, Mara ^a   Polonara, Gabriele ^a   Quattrini, Angelo ^b   Salvolini, Ugo ^a   Del Pesce, Maria ^a   Manzoni, Tullio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^b Regional Hospital   (Italy)

Author keywords

Brain fMRI; Corpus callosum; Human brain; Somatosensory cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CORPUS CALLOSUM TRANSSECTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERHEMISPHERIC TRANSFER; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TACTILE STIMULATION;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; REFERENCE VALUES; SKIN; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TOUCH;

EID: 0032701749     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.1999.00829.x     Document Type: Article

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