Congenitally altered motor experience alters somatotopic organization of human primary motor cortex

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 2395-2400

  Stoeckel, M Cornelia ^a,b   Seitz, Rüdiger J ^a,c   Buetefisch, Cathrin M ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL DÜSSELDORF   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

fMRI; Motor development; Motor plasticity; Nonsomatotopic; TMS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOOT; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HAND FUNCTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR DEVELOPMENT; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PHOCOMELIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD MOTONEURON; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIMB DEFORMITIES, CONGENITAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR NEURONS; NERVE NET; THALIDOMIDE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

PRIMATES;

EID: 60549115042     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0803733106     Document Type: Article

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