Pathways of interhemispheric transfer in normals and in a split-brain subject. A positron emission tomography study

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 126, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 451-458

  Marzi, C A ^a   Perani, D ^b   Tassinari, G ^a   Colleluori, A ^c   Maravita, A ^a   Miniussi, C ^a   Paulesu, E ^c   Scifo, P ^c   Fazio, F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b National Institute of Neuroscience   (Italy)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Corpus callosum; Human; Interhemispheric transfer; Positron emission tomography; Split brain

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR COMMISSURE; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN CORTEX; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; INTERHEMISPHERIC TRANSFER; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SPLIT BRAIN; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REFERENCE VALUES; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 0033012015     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002210050752     Document Type: Article

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