Whole brain functional connectivity in the early blind

Brain

Volumn 130, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2085-2096

  Liu, Yong ^a   Yu, Chunshui ^b   Liang, Meng ^a   Li, Jun ^a   Tian, Lixia ^a   Zhou, Yuan ^a   Qin, Wen ^b   Li, Kuncheng ^b   Jiang, Tianzi ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

^b CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Blind; Functional connectivity; General loss; Plasticity; Resting state fMRI

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; BRAILLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 34547734497     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awm121     Document Type: Article

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