Evidence for both compensatory plastic and disuse atrophy-related neuroanatomical changes in the blind

Brain

Volumn 137, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1224-1240

  Voss, Patrice ^a,b   Pike, Bruce G ^a   Zatorre, Robert J ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Laboratoire international de recherche sur le cerveau la musique et le son Montreal   (Canada)

Author keywords

auditory, tactile; blindness; crossmodal plasticity; magnetization transfer imaging; VBM

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY RESPONSE; BLINDNESS; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN TISSUE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUSIFORM GYRUS; GRAY MATTER; HEARING; HUMAN; LINGUAL GYRUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROANATOMY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL GYRUS; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STRIATE CORTEX; SUPRAMARGINAL GYRUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TOUCH; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WHITE MATTER; YOUNG ADULT; ATROPHY; BRAIN; ONSET AGE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; ATROPHY; BLINDNESS; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURONAL PLASTICITY;

EID: 84897891899     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awu030     Document Type: Article

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