Functional deficits in carpal tunnel syndrome reflect reorganization of primary somatosensory cortex
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Functional deficits in carpal tunnel syndrome reflect reorganization of primary somatosensory cortex.
Carpal tunnel syndrome, a median nerve entrapment neuropathy, is characterized by sensorimotor deficits. Recent reports have shown that this syndrome is also characterized by functional and structural neuroplasticity in the primary somatosensory cortex of the brain. However, the linkage between this neuroplasticity and the functional deficits in carpal tunnel syndrome is unknown. Sixty-three su...
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عنوان ژورنال: Brain
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1460-2156,0006-8950
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awu096