Structural and functional analyses of the occipital cortex in visual impaired patients with visual loss before 14 years old

Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 949-953

  Piovesan, Elcio Juliato ^a   Lange, Marcos Cristiano ^a   Kowacs, Pedro André ^a   Famelli, Hudson ^a   Werneck, Lineu Cesar ^a   Yamada, Airton ^b   Minguetti, Guilberto ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

^b Hospital de Clínicas da UFPR ^*

Author keywords

Blindness; Cortical perfusion; Neuroplasticity; Visual deprivation; Visual loss

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN METABOLISM; BRAIN PERFUSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; ONSET AGE; PARIETAL LOBE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; ADOLESCENT; AGE; BLINDNESS; BLOOD FLOW; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SCINTISCANNING; VASCULARIZATION; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BLINDNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; TEMPORAL LOBE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0036898024     PISSN: 0004282X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0004-282X2002000600011     Document Type: Article

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