The sensory cortical representation of the human penis: Revisiting somatotopy in the male homunculus

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 25, 2005, Pages 5984-5987

  Kell, Christian A ^a   Von Kriegstein, Katharina ^a   Rösler, Alexander ^b   Kleinschmidt, Andreas ^a   Laufs, Helmut ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brain; Functional; Genital; MRI; Postcentral gyrus; Primary sensory; Secondary sensory; Sequence; Somatosensory

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PENIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY CORTEX; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SOMATOTYPE;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, ANATOMIC; PENIS;

EID: 21344432331     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0712-05.2005     Document Type: Article

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