Enhanced tactile spatial acuity and cortical processing during acute hand deafferentation

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 936-938

  Werhahn, Konrad J ^a   Mortensen, Jennifer ^a   Van Boven, Robert W ^a   Zeuner, Kirsten E ^a   Cohen, Leonardo G ^a  

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

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEAFFERENTATION; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE POTENTIAL; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANESTHESIA, LOCAL; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; FOOT; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE BLOCK; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; TOUCH;

EID: 0036785842     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn917     Document Type: Article

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