Left hemispheric dominance of vestibular processing indicates lateralization of cortical functions in rats

Brain Structure and Function

Volumn 219, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 2141-2158

  Best, Christoph ^a,b   Lange, Elena ^b   Buchholz, Hans Georg ^b   Schreckenberger, Mathias ^b   Reuss, Stefan ^b   Dieterich, Marianne ^c  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Galvanic vestibular stimulation; Hemispheric dominance; MicroPET; Vestibular cortex

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; HANDEDNESS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; IMAGING; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; VESTIBULAR FUNCTION; VESTIBULAR NERVE; VESTIBULAR STIMULATION; ANIMAL; BRAIN; ELECTROSTIMULATION; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSORY NERVE; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MALE; NERVE NET; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; VESTIBULAR NERVE;

EID: 84929240519     PISSN: 18632653     EISSN: 18632661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00429-013-0628-1     Document Type: Article

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