Time-dependent changes in cortical excitability after prolonged visual deprivation

NeuroReport

Volumn 18, Issue 16, 2007, Pages 1703-1707

  Pitskel, Naomi B ^a   Merabet, Lotfi B ^a   Ramos Estebanez, Ciro ^a   Kauffman, Thomas ^a   Pascual Leone, Alvaro ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cortical excitability; Phosphenes; Transcranialmagnetic stimulation; Visual cortex; Visual deprivation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CORTICAL EXCITABILITY; EXCITABILITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIGHT EXPOSURE; MALE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIME; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DEPRIVATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

ADULT; BLINDNESS; DOWN-REGULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEURAL INHIBITION; PHOSPHENES; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; TIME; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 35148901602     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e3282f0d2c1     Document Type: Article

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