Period of susceptibility for cross-modal plasticity in the blind

Annals of Neurology

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 451-460

  Cohen, Leonardo G ^a,c   Weeks, Robert A ^a   Sadato, Norihiro ^b   Celnik, Pablo ^a   Ishii, Kenji ^a   Hallett, Mark ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; BRAILLE; BRAIN MATURATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; ONSET AGE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 0032942734     PISSN: 03645134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1531-8249(199904)45:4<451::AID-ANA6>3.0.CO;2-B     Document Type: Article

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