Age differences in interhemispheric interactions: Callosal structure, physiological function, and behavior

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue MAR, 2011, Pages

  Fling, Brett W ^a,b   Peltier, Scott J ^a   Bo, Jin ^a   Welsh, Robert C ^b,c   Seidler, Rachael D ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Inhibition; Interhemispheric; Motor control

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID B RECEPTOR;

BOLD SIGNAL; COGNITION; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HEMISPHERE; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HUMAN; INTERHEMISPHERIC TRANSFER; LEARNING; MONOSYNAPTIC PATHWAY; MOTONEURON; MOTOR CORTEX; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OXYGEN BLOOD LEVEL; PARKINSON DISEASE; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; REVIEW; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 79960171735     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2011.00038     Document Type: Review

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