Neurochemical changes within human early blind occipital cortex

Neuroscience

Volumn 252, Issue , 2013, Pages 222-233

  Weaver, K E ^a   Richards, T L ^a   Saenz, M ^c   Petropoulos, H ^b   Fine, I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Blindness; Cross modal plasticity; Magnetic resonance spectroscopy; Occipital; Visual deprivation

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; CHOLINE; CREATINE; GLUTAMIC ACID; INOSITOL; N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID;

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID BRAIN LEVEL; ADULT; ARTICLE; CEREBRAL BLINDNESS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EARLY BLINDNESS; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; METABOLITE; NEUROCHEMISTRY; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; WHITE MATTER;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANOVA; BLINDNESS; BLOOD-OXYGEN-LEVEL-DEPENDENT; BOLD; CEREBRAL SPINAL FLUID; CROSS-MODAL PLASTICITY; CSF; EARLY BLIND; EB; FID; FREE-INDUCTION DECAY; FULL WIDTH AT HALF MAXIMUM; FWHM; GM; GRAY MATTER; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MRS; N-ACETYL ASPARTATE; N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; NAA; NMDA; OCCIPITAL; PET; POSITION RESOLVED SPECTROSCOPY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRESS; S/N; SC; SIGHTED CONTROL; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; VISUAL DEPRIVATION; WHITE MATTER; WM;

ADULT; AGED; BLINDNESS; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCIPITAL LOBE;

EID: 84884132044     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: 18737544     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2013.08.004     Document Type: Article

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