Neural connectivity in hand sensorimotor brain areas: An evaluation by evoked field morphology

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 99-108

  Tecchio, Franca ^a,b   Zappasodi, Filippo ^a   Pasqualetti, Patrizio ^b,c   Rossini, Paolo Maria ^b,c,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

^b FATEBENEFRATELLI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

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

^d UNIVERSITY CAMPUS BIO MEDICO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Inter district similarity; Magnetoencephalography; Morphology; Neural connectivity individual index; SEF shape clustering

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; FINGER; HAND; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MORPHOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SENSORY STIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THUMB;

ADULT; AGED; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURAL CONDUCTION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; REACTION TIME; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; THALAMUS; TOUCH; ULNAR NERVE;

EID: 13444311695     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20073     Document Type: Article

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