Altered functional connectivity of primary visual cortex in early blindness

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 533-543

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

^a CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

Author keywords

Early blindness; Functional connectivity; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Human brain; Primary visual area; Resting state

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CEREBRAL BLINDNESS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; BLINDNESS; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 43949089539     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20420     Document Type: Article

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