Functional role of the supplementary and pre-supplementary motor areas

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 856-869

  Nachev, Parashkev ^a,b   Kennard, Christopher ^b   Husain, Masud ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEVODOPA;

ANATOMY; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; HUMAN; IMAGING; LEARNING; MOTOR SYSTEM; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; COGNITION; HUMANS; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURAL PATHWAYS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 56749186799     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn2478     Document Type: Review

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