Structural hemispheric asymmetries in the human precentral gyrus hand representation

Neuroscience

Volumn 210, Issue , 2012, Pages 211-221

  Rose, S ^a   Rowland, T ^b   Pannek, K ^a   Baumann, F ^a,b   Coulthard, A ^b   McCombe, P ^a,b   Henderson, R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b ROYAL BRISBANE AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cortical asymmetry; Diffusion tractography; Hand representation; HARDI; Motor function; Structural connectivity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN STEM; CAUDAL MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; CEREBELLUM; COHORT ANALYSIS; CUNEUS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FINGER; FINGER TAPPING; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; GRAY MATTER; GRIP STRENGTH; HAND FUNCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTCENTRAL GYRUS; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SUPERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; SUPERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL GYRUS; THALAMUS; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; AGED; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN MAPPING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84861186334     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: 18737544     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2012.02.044     Document Type: Article

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