Effects of age on negative BOLD signal changes in the primary somatosensory cortex

NeuroImage

Volumn 71, Issue , 2013, Pages 10-18

  Gröschel, Sonja ^a,d   Sohns, Jan Martin ^a   Schmidt Samoa, Carsten ^a   Baudewig, Jürgen ^a,b   Becker, Lars ^c   Dechent, Peter ^a   Kastrup, Andreas ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

^e KLINIKUM BREMEN MITTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Age; Electrical median nerve stimulation; Functional MRI; Inhibition; Negative BOLD signal; Somatosensory cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BOLD SIGNAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; MALE; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIMARY SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SECONDARY SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; SUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA; THALAMUS;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84872856519     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.12.039     Document Type: Article

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