What disconnection tells about motor imagery: Evidence from paraplegic patients

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 131-140

  Alkadhi, Hatem ^a   Brugger, Peter ^b   Boendermaker, Sabina Hotz ^c   Crelier, Gerard ^a   Curt, Armin ^c   Hepp Reymond, Marie Claude ^d   Kollias, Spyros S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c BALGRIST UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^d Institute of Neuroinformatics Zurich   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Functional MRI; Motor imagery; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EFFERENT NERVE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; KINESTHESIA; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NEUROANATOMY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARAPLEGIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; FEMALE; FOOT; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; KINESTHESIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; PARAPLEGIA; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 12144260882     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhh116     Document Type: Article

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