Relationship between Cortical Thickness and Functional Activation in the Early Blind

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 2035-2048

  Anurova, Irina ^a,b   Renier, Laurent A ^a,c   De Volder, Anne G ^c   Carlson, Synnöve ^b,d   Rauschecker, Josef P ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^d AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

blindness; cortical thickness; cross modal plasticity; magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); pruning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BLINDNESS; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CALCARINE SULCUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL BLINDNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL THICKNESS (BRAIN); CUNEUS; DIRECTIONAL HEARING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE OCCIPITAL GYRUS; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY CORTEX; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; SOUND DETECTION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DEPRIVATION; AGING; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BLOOD; BRAIN CIRCULATION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HEARING; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONSET AGE; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

OXYGEN;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; AGING; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BLINDNESS; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ORGAN SIZE; OXYGEN; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84938635891     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhu009     Document Type: Article

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