Altered Baseline Brain Activity with 72 h of Simulated Microgravity - Initial Evidence from Resting-State fMRI

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Liao, Yang ^a   Zhang, Jinsong ^b   Huang, Zhiping ^a   Xi, Yibin ^b   Zhang, Qianru ^a   Zhu, Tianli ^a   Liu, Xufeng ^a  

^a FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY FLUID; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COSMONAUT; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MICROGRAVITY; MOTOR CONTROL; NORMAL HUMAN; THALAMUS;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; REST; THALAMUS; TIME FACTORS; WEIGHTLESSNESS SIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84871382268     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0052558     Document Type: Article

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