Differential Grey Matter Changes in Sensorimotor Cortex Related to Exceptional Fine Motor Skills

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Stoeckel, M Cornelia ^a   Morgenroth, Farina ^b   Buetefisch, Cathrin M ^c   Seitz, Rüdiger J ^b,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL DÜSSELDORF   (Germany)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e Brain Imaging Center West   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; GRAY MATTER VOLUME; HAND FUNCTION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREMOTOR CORTEX; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOOT DEFORMITIES; HAND DEFORMITIES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

EID: 84871598087     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0051900     Document Type: Article

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