Brain neuroplasticity in occipital areas in blind teenagers;Neuroplasticidad cerebral en áreas occipitales en adolescentes ciegos

Revista de Neurologia

Volumn 50, Issue SUPPL. 3, 2010, Pages

  Ortiz, Tomás ^a   Poch Broto, Joaquín ^a   Requena, Carmen ^b   Santos, Juan Matías ^a   Martínez, Ana ^a   Barcia Albacar, Juan Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEÓN   (Spain)

Author keywords

Blind subjects; Neuroplasticity; Occipital areas; Stimulation; Tactile stimuli

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CORPUS CALLOSUM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; TACTILE STIMULATION; VISION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ADOLESCENT; BLINDNESS; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MALE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; OCCIPITAL LOBE; TOUCH;

EID: 77949520407     PISSN: 02100010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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