Functional expansion of sensorimotor representation and structural reorganization of callosal connections in lower limb amputees

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 3211-3220

  Simões, Elington L ^a   Bramati, Ivanei ^b   Rodrigues, Erika ^b,c   Franzoi, Ana ^d   Moll, Jorge ^b,e   Lent, Roberto ^a,e   Tovar Moll, Fernanda ^a,b,e  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b D OR INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION IDOR   (Brazil)

^c Augusto Motta University Center UNISUAM   (Brazil)

^d Brazilian Association for Rehabilitation   (Brazil)

^e National Institute for Translational Neuroscience   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGNOSIA; AMPUTATION STUMP; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISABLED PERSON; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEG AMPUTATION; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PHANTOM PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SOMATOSENSORY STIMULATION; TACTILE STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMPUTATION STUMPS; AMPUTEES; BRAIN MAPPING; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEG; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PHANTOM LIMB; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857571566     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4592-11.2012     Document Type: Article

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