Cortical input in control of swallowing

Current Opinion in Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 166-171

  Michou, Emilia ^a   Hamdy, Shaheen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dysphagia; Primary motor cortex; Sensory cortex; Swallowing

Indexed keywords

BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN INJURY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SENSORY STIMULATION; SWALLOWING; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DEGLUTITION; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE NET; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PHARYNX; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STROKE; TONGUE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 67749095910     PISSN: 10689508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MOO.0b013e32832b255e     Document Type: Review

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