HIGH METABOLIC-ACTIVITY DEMONSTRATED BY POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY IN HUMAN AUDITORY-CORTEX IN CASE OF DEAFNESS OF EARLY-ONSET

Authors
CATALANAHUMADA M DEGGOUJ N DEVOLDER A MELIN J MICHEL C VERAART C
Citation
M. Catalanahumada et al., HIGH METABOLIC-ACTIVITY DEMONSTRATED BY POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY IN HUMAN AUDITORY-CORTEX IN CASE OF DEAFNESS OF EARLY-ONSET, Brain research, 623(2), 1993, pp. 287-292
Citations number
35
Categorie Soggetti
Neurosciences
Journal title
Brain research → ACNP
ISSN journal
00068993
Volume
623
Issue
2
Year of publication
1993
Pages
287 - 292
Database
ISI
SICI code
0006-8993(1993)623:2<287:HMDBPE>2.0.ZU;2-G
Abstract
Glucose metabolism has been studied in the auditory cortex of human su bjects with deafness of early onset, and compared to normal subjects w ith ears plugged. The metabolism in the auditory cortex and in the ass ociation auditory cortex was higher in deaf subjects than in normal su bjects. This result is compared to similar observations that we made p reviously in the visual cortex of human subjects with blindness of ear ly onset.