Electrical Tongue Stimulation Normalizes Activity Within the Motion-Sensitive Brain Network in Balance-Impaired Subjects as Revealed by Group Independent Component Analysis

Brain Connectivity

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 255-265

  Wildenberg, Joseph C ^a   Tyler, Mitchell E ^b   Danilov, Yuri P ^b   Kaczmarek, Kurt A ^b   Meyerand, Mary E ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

brain plasticity; CN NINM; ICA; movement disorders; tongue; visual system

Indexed keywords

EID: 84969139684     PISSN: 21580014     EISSN: 21580022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/brain.2011.0029     Document Type: Article

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