Somatosensory Information Processing in the Aging Population
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Somatosensory Information Processing in the Aging Population
While it is well known that skin physiology - and consequently sensitivity to peripheral stimuli - degrades with age, what is less appreciated is that centrally mediated mechanisms allow for maintenance of the same degree of functionality in processing these peripheral inputs and interacting with the external environment. In order to demonstrate this concept, we obtained observations of process...
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عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1663-4365
DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2011.00018