Lower limb sensorimotor network: Issues of somatotopy and overlap

Cortex

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 219-232

  Kapreli, Eleni ^a,b   Athanasopoulos, Spyros ^a   Papathanasiou, Matilda ^d   Van Hecke, Paul ^c   Kelekis, Dimitrios ^d   Peeters, Ronald ^c   Strimpakos, Nikolaos ^b   Sunaert, Stefan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b TEI of Lamia   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Brain activation; Cerebellum; fMRI; Lower limb; Primary sensorimotor cortex; Somatotopy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CEREBELLUM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KNEE FUNCTION; LEG; LEG MOVEMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION; TOE;

EID: 33947281403     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 00109452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-9452(08)70477-5     Document Type: Article

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