Normalisation of brain connectivity through compensatory behaviour, despite congenital hand absence

Normalisation of brain connectivity through compensatory behaviour, despite congenital hand absence

Previously we showed, using task-evoked fMRI, that compensatory intact hand usage after amputation facilitates remapping of limb representations in the cortical territory of the missing hand (Makin et al., 2013a). Here we show that compensatory arm usage in individuals born without a hand (one-hande...

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Main Authors: Avital Hahamy, Stamatios N Sotiropoulos, David Henderson Slater, Rafael Malach, Heidi Johansen-Berg, Tamar R Makin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2015-01-01
Series:eLife
Subjects:
neuroimaging
rehabilitation
plasticity
Online Access:https://elifesciences.org/articles/04605

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