The map is not the territory: Motor system reorganization in upper limb amputees

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 509-519

  Gagné, Martin ^a   Hétu, Sébastien ^a   Reilly, Karen T ^b,c   Mercier, Catherine ^a  

^a CENTER FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH IN REHABILITATION AND SOCIAL INTEGRATION   (Canada)

^b INSTITUT DES SCIENCES COGNITIVES   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

Corticospinal excitability; Human; Plasticity; Primary motor cortex; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMPUTATION STUMP; ARM AMPUTATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HAND AMPUTATION; HUMAN; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; AGED; AMPUTATION STUMPS; AMPUTEES; ARM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952408239     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.21038     Document Type: Article

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