Structural and functional plasticity in the somatosensory cortex of chronic stroke patients

Brain

Volumn 129, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2722-2733

  Schaechter, Judith D ^a,b   Moore, Christopher I ^c   Connell, Brendan D ^a,b   Rosen, Bruce R ^a,b   Dijkhuizen, Rick M ^a,b,d  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cortical thickness; MRI; Plasticity; Postcentral gyrus; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STROKE; TACTILE STIMULATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

EID: 33749494030     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awl214     Document Type: Article

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