The effects of visual deprivation on functional and structural organization of the human brain

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1169-1180

  Noppeney, Uta ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Blindness; Connectivity; Crossmodal plasticity; Experience dependent plasticity; Functional imaging; Functional reorganization; Neurodevelopment; Structural imaging; Visual deprivation; Voxel based morphometry

Indexed keywords

BLINDNESS; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; HUMAN; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROIMAGING; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; VISUAL ADAPTATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DEPRIVATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; HUMANS; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; VISION; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 36348936707     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2007.04.012     Document Type: Review

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