Altered spontaneous activity in anisometropic amblyopia subjects: Revealed by resting-state fMRI

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Lin, Xiaoming ^a   Ding, Kun ^a   Liu, Yong ^b   Yan, Xiaohe ^a   Song, Shaojie ^a   Jiang, Tianzi ^b,c,d  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AMBLYOPIA; ANISOMETROPIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CEREBELLUM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; GENDER; HUMAN; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INSULA; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; OCCIPITAL GYRUS; PARACENTRAL LOBULE; POSTCENTRAL GYRUS; PRECUNEUS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PUTAMEN; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; REGIONAL HOMOGENEITY; REST; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; VISION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMBLYOPIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84865292035     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0043373     Document Type: Article

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