Altered intrinsic neuronal interactions in the visual cortex of the blind

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 43, 2013, Pages 17072-17080

  Hawellek, David J ^a,b   Schepers, Inga M ^a,c   Roeder, Brigitte ^d   Engel, Andreas K ^a   Siegel, Markus ^a,e   Hipp, Joerg F ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONNECTOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GAMMA RHYTHM; HUMAN; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROSCOPY; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DEPRIVATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; BLINDNESS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DELTA RHYTHM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURONS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 84886933257     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1625-13.2013     Document Type: Article

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