Motor learning in healthy humans is associated to gray matter changes: A tensor-based morphometry study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Filippi, Massimo ^a   Ceccarelli, Antonia ^a   Pagani, Elisabetta ^a   Gatti, Roberto ^a   Rossi, Alice ^a   Stefanelli, Laura ^a   Falini, Andrea ^a   Comi, Giancarlo ^a   Rocca, Maria Assunta ^a  

^a SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; TENSOR BASED MORPHOMETRY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; NONMYELINATED NERVE; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MOTOR SKILLS; NERVE FIBERS, UNMYELINATED; NERVE NET; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956323297     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0010198     Document Type: Article

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