Multimodal fMRI tractography in normal subjects and in clinically recovered traumatic brain injury patients

NeuroImage

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1331-1341

  Cherubini, Andrea ^a   Luccichenti, Giacomo ^a   Péran, Patrice ^a   Hagberg, Gisela E ^a   Barba, Carmen ^a   Formisano, Rita ^a   Sabatini, Umberto ^a  

^a IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Connectivity; Cortical plasticity; Functional MRI; Motor pathways; Motor deficit; Probabilistic tractography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNAPSE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; VOLUNTEER;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PARESIS; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 33846592779     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2006.11.024     Document Type: Article

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