Brain plasticity in health and disease

Keio Journal of Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 231-246

  Johansson, Barbro B ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Aging; Development; Dystonia; Neuronal plasticity; Stroke

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; ACETYLCHOLINE; AMPA RECEPTOR; CANNABINOID 1 RECEPTOR; DOPAMINE; ENDORPHIN; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; GLUTAMIC ACID; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; NITRIC OXIDE;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BRAIN; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN SIZE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHILD; COGNITION; DYSTONIA; HAND SURGERY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEARNING; LONG TERM DEPRESSION; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MOUSE; MUSICIAN; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE SURGERY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARKINSON DISEASE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; REVIEW; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPATIAL MEMORY; STROKE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASES; HUMANS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY;

EID: 12344298157     PISSN: 00229717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2302/kjm.53.231     Document Type: Review

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