Altered white matter integrity in the congenital and late blind people

Neural Plasticity

Volumn 2013, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Wang, Dawei ^a   Qin, Wen ^a   Liu, Yong ^b   Zhang, Yunting ^a   Jiang, Tianzi ^b   Yu, Chunshui ^a  

^a TIANJIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; BRAIN DISEASE; CONGENITAL BLINDNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LATE BLINDNESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE FIBER DEGENERATION; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WHITE MATTER; WHITE MATTER INTEGRITY IMPAIRMENT; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; MYELINATED NERVE; NERVE FIBER; PATHOLOGY; PYRAMIDAL TRACT;

ADULT; ANISOTROPY; AXONS; BLINDNESS; BRAIN; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS;

EID: 84877290912     PISSN: 20905904     EISSN: 16875443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2013/128236     Document Type: Article

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