Functional connectivity density in congenitally and late blind subjects

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 2507-2516

  Qin, Wen ^a   Xuan, Yun ^b   Liu, Yong ^c   Jiang, Tianzi ^c   Yu, Chunshui ^a  

^a Tianjin Key Laboratory of Injuries   (China)

^b TIANJIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

Author keywords

Functional connectivity density; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Occipital cortex; Sensitive period; Visual deprivation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BLINDNESS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL BLINDNESS; CONGENITAL GLAUCOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSPLASIA; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY; FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY DENSITY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNDUS HEMORRHAGE; GLAUCOMA; GRAY MATTER; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR HEMORRHAGE; MALE; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; MICROPHTHALMIA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; ONSET AGE; OPTIC NERVE ATROPHY; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA DETACHMENT; RETINA DISEASE; RETINAL PIGMENTOSA; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STRIATE CORTEX; VISUAL DEPRIVATION; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WHITE MATTER; BLOOD; BRAIN MAPPING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; IMAGE PROCESSING; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; TIME FACTOR; VASCULARIZATION; VISUAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

OXYGEN;

ADULT; BLINDNESS; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84942666105     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhu051     Document Type: Article

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