Neuromagnetic integrated methods tracking human brain mechanisms of sensorimotor areas 'plastic' reorganisation

Brain Research Reviews

Volumn 33, Issue 2-3, 2000, Pages 131-154

  Rossini, P M ^a   Pauri, F ^a  

^a IRCCS ISTITUTO CENTRO SAN GIOVANNI DI DIO FATEBENEFRATELLI   (Italy)

Author keywords

fMRI; Functional recovery; MEG; Rehabilitation; Removal reorganization; Stroke; TMS

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN CORTEX LESION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CEREBRAL BLINDNESS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; HAND MUSCLE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIMB AMPUTATION; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MUSICIAN; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; TECHNIQUE; TRAINING; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

EID: 0033822671     PISSN: 01650173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-328X(00)00090-5     Document Type: Article

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