Spatial memory and hippocampal volume in humans with unilateral vestibular deafferentation

Hippocampus

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 471-485

  Hüfner, Katharina ^a,g   Hamilton, Derek A ^b   Kalla, Roger ^a   Stephan, Thomas ^a   Glasauer, Stefan ^a,c   Ma, Jun ^a,e   Brüning, Roland ^a,f   Markowitsch, Hans J ^d   Labudda, Kirsten ^d   Schichor, Christian ^a   Strupp, Michael ^a   Brandt, Thomas ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^c Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience   (Germany)

^d BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f ASKLEPIOS HOSPITAL BARMBEK   (Germany)

^g LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hippocampus; Navigation; Unilateral vestibular deafferentation; Vestibular system

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NEURINOMA; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEAFFERENTATION; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MORRIS WATER TASK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VESTIBULAR DISORDER; VOLUMETRY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; VESTIBULAR DISEASES;

EID: 34250165359     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: 10981063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.20283     Document Type: Article

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