Cortical Maps and White Matter Tracts following Long Period of Visual Deprivation and Retinal Image Restoration

Neuron

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 21-31

  Levin, Netta ^a   Dumoulin, Serge O ^b   Winawer, Jonathan ^a   Dougherty, Robert F ^a   Wandell, Brian A ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

HUMDISEASE; SYSNEURO

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; BRAIN CORTEX; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA DISEASE; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE DISPLAY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA IMAGE; RETINA NERVE CELL; VISUAL DEPRIVATION; VISUAL SYSTEM; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; BLINDNESS; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETINA; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 73549116982     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2009.12.006     Document Type: Article

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