Structural and functional plasticity of the hippocampal formation in professional dancers and slackliners

Hippocampus

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 855-865

  Hüfner, Katharina ^a   Binetti, Carolina ^a   Hamilton, Derek A ^b   Stephan, Thomas ^a   Flanagin, Virginia L ^a   Linn, Jennifer ^a   Labudda, Kirsten ^c   Markowitsch, Hans ^c   Glasauer, Stefan ^a   Jahn, Klaus ^a   Strupp, Michael ^a   Brandt, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^c BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hippocampus; Multisensory stimulation; Navigation; Vestibular system

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BALLET DANCER; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DANCING; FEMALE; FUSIFORM GYRUS; GRAY MATTER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; ICE DANCER; INSULA; INTELLIGENCE; LINGUAL GYRUS; MALE; MEMORY; MISCELLANEOUS NAMED GROUPS; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLACKLINER; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME; TRAINING; VESTIBULAR STIMULATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; DANCING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPACE PERCEPTION; VESTIBULAR DISEASES;

EID: 79960623762     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: 10981063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.20801     Document Type: Article

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