Spared and impaired olfactory abilities after thalamic lesions

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 39, 2009, Pages 12059-12069

  Sela, Lee ^a   Sacher, Yaron ^b,c   Serfaty, Corinne ^b,c   Yeshurun, Yaara ^a   Soroker, Nachum ^b,c   Sobel, Noam ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b LOEWENSTEIN REHABILITATION HOSPITAL   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; BRAIN DAMAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; ODOR; OLFACTORY BULB; OLFACTORY CORTEX; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE CONDUCTION; SMELLING; SMELLING DISORDER; SNIFFING; TASK PERFORMANCE; THALAMUS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGED; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODORS; OLFACTION DISORDERS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SMELL; THALAMUS;

EID: 70349617701     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2114-09.2009     Document Type: Article

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