Cortex
Volume 46, Issue 5 , Pages 691-699 , May 2010

Anatomic dissection of the inferior fronto-occipital fasciculus revisited in the lights of brain stimulation data

  • Juan Martino

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurosurgery, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, Santander, Cantabria, Spain
    • ,
  • Christian Brogna

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neuroscience – Neurosurgery, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
    • ,
  • Santiago G. Robles

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurosurgery, Hôpital Gui de Chauliac, CHU Montpellier, France
    • ,
  • Francesco Vergani

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurosurgery, Università degli studi di Milano-Bicocca, San Gerardo Hospital, Monza (Milan), Italy
    • ,
  • Hugues Duffau

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurosurgery, Hôpital Gui de Chauliac, CHU Montpellier, France
    • Institut of Neuroscience of Montpellier, INSERM U583, France
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Neurosurgery, Hôpital Gui de Chauliac, CHU de Montpellier, 80 Avenue Augustin Fliche, 34295 Montpellier, France.

Received 13 December 2008 ,Revised 26 March 2009 ,Accepted 13 July 2009.

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☆ Sources of financial support: Juan Martino receives specific founding from the Post-MIR Wenceslao López-Albo's grant. Fundación “Marqués de Valdecilla”, IFIMAV, Santander, Cantabria, Spain.

PII: S0010-9452(09)00251-2

doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2009.07.015

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