Localization of the human female breast in primary somatosensory cortex

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 164, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 357-364

  Rothemund, Yvonne ^a,d   Schaefer, Michael ^b   Grüsser, Sabine M ^c   Flor, Herta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^c Department of Nursing Sciences   (Germany)

^d CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

EEG; Electrical stimulation; Somatosensory evoked potential (SEP); Source localization; Trunk representation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY IMAGE; BREAST; DERMATOME; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SKIN RECEPTOR; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; BREAST; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; FINGERS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MECHANORECEPTORS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; WRIST;

EID: 23744470176     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-005-2257-2     Document Type: Article

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