Alterations of the visual pathways in congenital blindness

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 187, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 41-49

  Ptito, Maurice ^a,c   Schneider, Fabien C G ^b   Paulson, Olaf B ^c,d   Kupers, Ron ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF SAINT ETIENNE   (France)

^c HVIDOVRE HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^d Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Blindness; Extrastriate cortex; Geniculostriate system; Grey matter; Voxel based morphometry; White matter

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL BLINDNESS; CONGENITAL CATARACT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTIC CHIASM; OPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; RETINOBLASTOMA; RETINOPATHY; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL SYSTEM; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; AGED; ATROPHY; BLINDNESS; BRAIN; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FEMALE; GENICULATE BODIES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; OPTIC NERVE; PULVINAR; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 42449083698     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-008-1273-4     Document Type: Article

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