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1975 - 1978: I pursued undergraduate studies in the Dept. of Biology at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main (major subjects: Zoology, Botany, Chemistry and Physics).
1978 - 1979: I spent one academic year as an exchange graduate student in the Dept. of Radiation Biology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN. As laboratory participation, I worked on the development of radiopharmaceuticals with Dr. K.F. Hübner, Medical & Health Sciences Div., Oak Ridge Associated Universities, Oak Ridge, TN.
1980: I picked up graduate studies in the Dept. of Biology, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main. As graduate research participation, I worked on the development of a non-phenolic method to isolate t-RNAs from E. coli with Dr. B. Kaun, Institute of Biophysical Chemistry, Frankfurt am Main (Director: Prof. H. Rüterjahns).
In the summers of 1976, '77, '78 and '80, I worked as an intern on development and quality control of diagnostic radiopharmaceuticals for the Radiochemical Laboratories of Hoechst AG, Frankfurt am Main (Dr. med. G. Kloss).
1981: After final exams (Diplomprüfungen) in Zoology, Biochemistry and Biophysics, I worked on the tonotopical representation of sound frequencies in the central auditory pathway of the echolocating rufous horseshoe bat using the autoradiographic deoxyglucose method. This project became my Master's thesis submitted to the faculty of natural sciences of Johann Wolfgang Goethe University (adviser: Dr. H. Schweizer).
1982: I worked with Prof. Chr. Winter, Institute of Zoology, Frankfurt am Main, on the tonotopical representation of sound frequencies in the central auditory pathway of gerbils using the autoradiographic deoxyglucose method.
1983: I was accepted as a Ph.D.-candidate at the Institute of Anatomy, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland (Director: Prof. H. Van der Loos) and began to work on the development of stimulus-specific patterns of neural activity in the somatosensory pathway of the mouse.
1985: I submitted my Ph.D.-thesis to the faculty of natural sciences of Johann Wolfgang Goethe University. 1986: After final exams in Zoology, Biochemistry and Physical Chemistry, I was awarded the Ph.D.-degree by Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, and conducted, as postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Anatomy, Lausanne, research on development and plasticity in the mouse somatosensory pathway (Prof. H. Van der Loos) and in the cat visual system (Prof. G.M. Innocenti). This work was supported with a fellowship by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft..
1989: I started to work as a Fogarty Visiting Fellow in the Laboratory of Cerebral Metabolism, NIMH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA (chief Dr. L. Sokoloff). My projects dealt with plasticity of functional whisker maps in the somatosensory pathway following the removal of whisker follicles in adult and newborn mice. I used the fully quantitative autoradiographic deoxyglucose method in combination with histological staining techniques and in vitro receptor binding assays.
1992: I was appointed Visiting Associate in the Laboratory of Cerebral Metabolism to continue my projects.
1994: I was appointed Research Associate in the laboratory of Professor Maureen K. Powers, Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, to investigate plasticity of functional maps in the goldfish tectum with the autoradiographic deoxyglucose method.
1996: I was appointed Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN.
1997: I joined the Institute of Developmental Neuroscience (Director Professor Ford F. Ebner), John F. Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development, Peabody College, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA, to study functional plasticity in the visual system of people with severe visual disabilities with functional magnetic resonance imaging and develop a rat model to elucidate underlying mechanisms of brain re-organization as principal investigator.
2007: I started a consultancy and continue to collaborate with Ford Ebner.
- the Hoechst AG Foundation
1987: Horizon (BBC,
London, UK).
1988: The Mind (WNET,
Channel 13, New York, NY, USA).
1999: Interview with
Latonya Turner, Channel 4 News (WSMV, Channel 4, Nashville, TN,
USA).
Interview with Dan
Kotz, Diagnostic Imaging (United News & Media PLC, London, UK).
Cover story by Don
Colburn, The Washington Post Health Section of Sep. 28.
Interview
with Julie Calyton, BioMednews
(Elsevier Science, London, UK).
2001: Interview with
Joe Brean, The National Post, Toronto, CDN.
Interview with Helen
Phillips, The New Scientist, London, UK.
Interview with
Raquel Aguiar, Rio-de-Janeiro, BR.
Interview with Alda
Rocha, Expresso, Lisbon, PT.
According
to the ISI citation index dated Sep. 18, 2008, my research has been
cited in the scientific literature 348
times.
Pub Med
Melzer,
P., and Ebner, F. (2007) Braille, plasticity, and the mind. In
Blindness
and brain plasticity in navigation and object perception.
J.J. Rieser, D.H. Ashmead, F.F. Ebner, and A.L. Corn (eds.). Lawrence
Erlbaum Associates, New York, NY:pp 85-112.
Melzer, P., Maguire,
M.J., and Ebner, F. F., Rat barrel cortex as a model for stroke
analysis. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr., 32 (2006): 583.13.
Melzer, P., and
Ebner, F. F., The BOLD response in somatic sensory cortex peaks with
multiple whisker stimulation at low whisk rates: a functional
magnetic resonance imaging study without anesthesia. Soc. Neurosci.
Abstr., 30 (2004): 977.4.
Melzer, P., Pickens,
D.R., Price, R.R., Morgan, V.L., Wall, R.S., and Ebner, F.F., Timing
of sensory challenges affects cortical activation during braille
reading in the visually disabled: a fMRI study. Soc. Neurosci.
Abstr., 25 (1999): 1812.
Melzer, P., Pickens,
D.R., Price, R.R., Morgan, V.L., Wall, R.S., and Ebner, F.F.,
Cerebral activation during reading nouns and text in Braille: a fMRI
study. Radiol., 209P (1998): 243.
Melzer, P., Pickens,
D.R., Price, R.R., Morgan, V.L., Wall, R.S., and Ebner, F.F., Reading
Braille activates cortical areas of the dorsal stream in the blind.
Soc. Neurosci. Abstr., 24 (1998): 1979.
Melzer, P., Pickens
D.R., Price, R.R., Morgan, V.L., Symons F.J., and Wall, R.S., Reading
Braille predominantly activates extrastriate cortex in persons with
severe visual disability: a fMRI study. Proc. Sixth Scientific
Meeting of the Intl. Soc. Magnetic Resonance in Med., (1998) 1514.
Melzer,
P., Hackett, T., Masterton, R.B., and Kaas, J.H., Mapping of auditory
cortex in the mouse opossum Monodelphis
domestica.
Soc. Neurosci. Abstr., 23 (1997): 2072.
Melzer, P., Zhang,
M.-Z., and McKanna, J.A., Infraorbital nerve transection and whisker
follicle removal result in an increase in reactive microglia in adult
rat brainstem trigeminal nuclei. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr., 21 (1995):
108.
Melzer, P., and
Smith, C.B., Plasticity of the metabolic whisker map in the mouse
somatosensory system after follicle removal in neonates and in
adults. J. Cereb. Blood Flow and Metabol., 15, Suppl. 1 (1995): S685.
Melzer,
P., and Steiner, H., Stimulus-dependent expression of the
immediate-early genes c-fos
and zif
268
in the whisker-to-barrel pathway of the rat. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr.,
20 (1994): 1384.
Melzer, P., and
Smith, C.B., Functional plasticity in the adult mouse barrel cortex
is concomitant with peripheral sensory reorganization. Soc. Neurosci.
Abstr., 19 (1993): 47.
Melzer, P., and
Smith, C.B., Plasticity in the mouse whisker-to-barrel pathway:
Effects of peripheral deprivatrion in neonates on the functional map
in adults; a deoxyglucose study. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr., 16 (1990):
632.
Melzer, P., Rothblat,
L.A., and Innocenti, G.M., Lesions involving the optic radiation in
kittens modify the postnatal development of corticocortical
connections. Acta Anat., 132 (1988): 83.
Melzer, P., Welker,
E., Dörfl, J., and Van der Loos, Whisker stimulation increases
ketone body metabolism in infant mouse trigeminal subnuclei caudalis
and interpolaris. Acta. Anat., 132 (1988): 84.
Melzer, P., Yamakado,
M., Van der Loos, H., Welker, E., and Dörfl, J., Plasticity in
the barrel cortex of adult mouse: Effects of peripheral deprivation
on the functional map; a deoxyglucose study. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr.,
14 (1988): 844.
Melzer, P., Welker,
E., Dörfl, J., and Van der Loos, H., Whisker stimulation
increases ketone body (KB) metabolism in infant mouse trigeminal
subnuclei caudalis (SC) and interpolaris (SI). Experientia, 43
(1987): 671.
Melzer, P., Rothblat,
L.A., and Innocenti, G.M., Lesions involving the optic radiation in
kittens modify the postnatal development of corticocortical
connections. Neurosci., 22 (1987): S223.
Melzer, P., Welker,
E., Dörfl, J., and Van der Loos, H., Deoxyglucose (DG)
autoradiography reveals mediolaterally reversed representations of
mouse whiskers in trigeminal subnuclei interpolaris (Si) and caudalis
(Sc). Experientia, 42 (1986): 676.
Melzer, P., Welker,
E., Dörfl, J., and Van der Loos, H., Development of order in the
whisker-to-barrel pathway of the mouse: Neuronal metabolic responses
to whisker stimulation. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr., 12 (1986): 953.
Melzer, P., Van der
Loos, H., Dörfl, J., Welker, E., Robert, P., Emery, D., and
Berrini, J.-CH., A magnetic device for the selective stimulation of
mouse vibrissae: Its application in a deoxyglucose study. Acta Anat.,
121 (1985): 252-253.
Melzer, P., Welker,
E., Dörfl, J., and Van der Loos, H., The dependence of
stimulus-evoked responses in the barrelfield (BF) of the mouse on the
intensity of vibrissa stimulation: A deoxyglucose (DG) study.
Neurosci. Lett., Suppl. 22 (1985): S424.
Melzer, P., Welker,
E., Dörfl, and Van der Loos, H., The onset of response to
whisker stimulation in mouse barrelfield (BF), a deoxyglucose (DG)
and cytochrome oxidase (CO) study. Experientia, 40 (1984): 631.
Melzer, P., Welker,
E., Dörfl, J., and Van der Loos, H., Metabolic signs of early
cortical response to whisker stimulation in mice, a deoxyglucose (DG)
and cytochrome oxidase (CO) study. Neurosci. Lett., Suppl. 18 (1984):
S299.
Adachi, K., Kennedy,
C., Wang, F., Takahashi, S., Melzer, P., and Sokoloff, L., Effects of
nitric oxide synthase inhibitors on increases in cerebral blood flow
induced by whisker stimulation. J. Cereb. Blood Flow and Metabol.,
13, Suppl. 1 (1993) S152.
Allison, J.D.,
Melzer, P., Ding, Y., Dinger, J., Bonds, A.B., and Casagrande, V.A.,
The contribution of LGN M and P layers to the contrast sensitivity of
primate V1 neurons. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr., 21 (1995) 1646.
Assal, F., Melzer,
P., and Innocenti, G.M., Functional analysis of a visual cortical
circuit resembling human microgyria. Europ. J. Neurosci., Suppl.
(1989).
Champney, G.,
Sachdev, R., Maguire, M., Melzer, P., and Ebner, F., Neural encoding
of frequency of whisker stimulation in S1 and S2 is influenced by
callosal input. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr., 27 (2001) 51.11.
Dörfl, J.,
Welker, E., Melzer, P., and Van der Loos, H., Left-right interactions
determine the central effect of whisker clipping in the adult mouse;
a deoxyglucose study. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr., 14 (1988) 424.
Esaki, T., Itoh, Y.,
Shimoji, K., Cook, M., Jehle, J., Melzer, P., and Sokoloff, L.,
Effects of haloperidol on cerebral blood flow response to
somatosensory stimulation in unanesthetized rat. Soc. Neurosci.
Abstr., 26 (2000) 1738.
Hoogland,
P., Welker, E., Melzer, P., and Van der Loos, H., Organization of the
barrelfield (BF) projections to the thalamus in mice studied with the
anterograde tracer Phaseolus
vulgaris-leucoagglutinin
(PHA-L). Experientia, 42 (1986): 676.
Hoogland,
P., Welker, E., Melzer, P., and Van der Loos, H., Organization of the
projections from the barrel cortex to thalamus in mice studied with
the anterograde tracer Phaseolus
vulgaris-leucoagglutinin
(PHA-L). Neurosci. Lett., Suppl. 26 (1986): S116.
Innocenti, G.M.,
Berbel, P., and Aschoff, A., and Melzer, P., Connections and
functional properties of an experimental cortical network. Europ. J.
Neurosci., Suppl.1 (1988): 334.
Innocenti, G.M.,
Berbel, P., and Melzer, P., Stabilization of transitory
cortico-cortical projections following lesions provoked by neonatal
ibotenic acid injections. Neurosci., 22 (1987): S227.
Innocenti, G.M.,
Berbel, P., and Melzer, P., The development of transitory
auditory-to-visual cortex projections in the cat. Soc. Neurosci.
Abstr., 13 (1987): 1024.
Mineo, L., Melzer, P.
and Ebner, F.F., Whisk rate of blind rats is accelerated during
object recognition. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr., 28 (2002) 257.9.
Powers, M.K., Melzer,
P., Lindsey, A.E., and Wall, R.M., Connections between regenerating
retina and brain in adult goldfish. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr., 22 (1996):
263.
Powers, M.K., and
Melzer, P., Effects of retinal lesions on metabolic responses in the
goldfish tectum: A deoxyglucose study. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr., 21
(1995): 818.
Rao, S.B., Welker,
E., Dörfl, Melzer, P., and Van der Loos, H., Plasticity in the
barrel cortex of the adult mouse: Effects of prolonged whisker
stimulation on acute stimulus evoked DG-uptake. Soc. Neurosci.
Abstr., 15 (1989): 1222.
Sachdev, R.N.S.,
Jenkinson, E., Melzer, P. and Ebner F.F., Dual Electrode recording
from awake rat S1 barrel cortex. Somatosensory & Motor Res., 16
(1999): 165-166.
Stefansic, J.D.,
Morgan, V.L., Hardin, D., Melzer, P. and Ebner, F.F., Temporal
frequency analysis of fMRI time courses of Braille readers with the
continuous wavelet transform. Tenth Scientific Meeting of the Intl.
Soc. Magnetic Resonance in Med., (2002) 1434.
Welker, E., Melzer,
P., Dörfl, J., and Van der Loos, H., The sensory effectiveness
of supernumerary mystacial vibrissae (SWs) in the mouse; a
deoxyglucose (DG) study of the barrelfield, Experientia, 41 (1985):
1219.
Sokoloff,
L., Kennedy C., Adachi, K., Wang, F., Takahashi, S., and Melzer, P.
(1992) Effects of inhibition of nitric oxide synthase on resting
local cerebral blood flow and on changes induced by hypercapnia or
local functional activity. In Pharmacology
of Cerebral Ischemia.
J. Krieglstein and H. Oberpichler-Schwenk (eds.). Wissenschaftliche
Verlagsgesellschaft, Stuttgart: 371-381.
1978: Eighth Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, St. Louis, MO, USA (passive).
1979: 26th Annual Meeting of the Society for Nuclear Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA (passive).
1981: Ninth Neurobiology Meeting, Göttingen, FRG (passive).
1982: First World Congress of Neuroscience, Lausanne, Switzerland (passive). Tenth Neurobiology Meeting, Göttingen, FRG (poster). Third International Theriological Congress, Helsinki, Finland (talk).
1983: 15th Meeting of the Union of the Swiss Societies for Experimental Biology (USGEB/USSBE), Fribourg, Switzerland (passive). 11th Neurobiology Meeting, Göttingen, FRG (poster).
1984: 16th Annual Meeting of the Swiss Societies for Experimental Biology (USGEB/USSBE), Zurich, Switzerland (poster). 12th Neurobiology Meeting, Göttingen, FRG (poster). Eighth European Neuroscience Congress, Den Haag, the Netherlands (talk). 164th Annual Meeting of the Swiss Academy of Sciences (poster). 46th Annual Meeting of the Swiss Society for Anatomy, Histology and Embryology, Lausanne, Switzerland (poster).
1985: 13th Neurobiology Meeting, Göttingen, FRG (poster). Ninth European Neuroscience Congress, Oxford, UK (talk).
1986: 15th Winterschool of the European Training Programme in Brain and Behaviour Research, Zuoz, Switzerland (poster). Sixth European Winter Conference on Brain Research, Avoriaz, France (talk). 18th Annual Meeting of the Swiss Societies for Experimental Biology (USGEB/USSBE), Basle, Switzerland (poster). First Autumn School of the European Training Programme in Brain and Behaviour Research on Brain Imaging, Spetzes, Greece (talk). 48th Annual Meeting of the Swiss Society for Anatomy, Histology and Embryology, Fribourg, Switzerland (poster). Organizing Principles of Sensory Processing: The Brain's View of the World, Pittsburgh, PA, USA (passive). 16th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Washington D.C., USA (talk).
1987: Seventh European Winter Conference on Brain Research, Val Thorens, France (poster). 19th Meeting of USGEB, Lausanne, Switzerland (poster). 49th Annual Meeting of the Swiss Society for Anatomy, Histology and Embryology, Basel, Switzerland (poster). 1988: First Congress of the European Society for Developmental Pharmacology, Les Diablerets, Switzerland (passive). Longevity and Quality of Life, Vatican City (passive). Barrels, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (poster). 18th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (poster).
1989: Georgetown University Bicentennial Symposium, Neuroscience in the Twentyfirst Century: New Perspectives and Horizons, Washington, D.C., USA (passive). 19th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Phoenix, AZ, USA (poster).
1990: Barrels, St. Louis, MO, USA (passive). 20th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, St. Louis, MO, USA (talk).
1991: Annual Meeting of the American Society for the Advancement of Science, Washington, D.C., USA (poster).
1993: 23rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Washington, D.C., USA (poster). 1994: 24th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Miami Beach, FL, USA (poster).
1995: 17th International Symposium on Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism, Cologne, FRG (poster). 25th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA, USA (posters).
1996: 26th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Washington D.C., USA (passive).
1997: 27th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, New Orleans, LA, USA (poster).
1998: 31st Annual Gatlinburg Conference on Research in Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, Charleston, SC, USA (passive). 28th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Los Angeles, CA, USA (talk).
1999: 32nd Annual Gatlinburg Conference on Research in Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, Charleston, SC, USA (poster). 29th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Miami, FL, USA (talk). 2000: 30th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, New Orleans, LA, USA (poster).
2001: 31st Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA, USA (poster).
2002: 32nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Orlando, FL, USA (poster).
2004: 34th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA, USA (poster).
2006: 36th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Atlanta, GA, USA (poster).
1980: "The
Biosonar of Bats."
Institute of Physical Chemistry, Wilhelms University, Münster,
FRG.
1982: "Deoxyglucose
Autoradiography of the Acoustic Fovea in the Auditory Pathway of the
Echolocating Horseshoe Bat."
Institute of Anatomy, University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
"Deoxyglucose
Autoradiography of Acoustic Responses in the Auditory System of
Gerbils."
CNRS laboratoire de physiologie nerveuse, Dept. of Sensory
Neurophysiology, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
1984: "Development
of Function in the Barrelfield of the Mouse."
Institute of Anatomy, University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
"The
Onset of Responses to Vibrissa Stimulation in the Barrelfield. A
Deoxyglucose Study on the Functional Development of the Mouse
Somatosensory Cortex." Institute
of Zoology, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, FRG.
1986: "What
does Metabolic Mapping with Deoxyglucose Show? Discrepancies Between
Deoxyglucose Autoradiography and Single- & Multiunit Recordings."
Institute of Anatomy, University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
1987: "The
Development of Stimulus-specific Patterns of Glucose Metabolism in
the Somatosensory CNS of the Mouse: A Deoxyglucose Study."
Dept.
of Biochemistry, Hoechst AG, Werk Albert, Wiesbaden, FRG.
1988: "Plasticity
of Metabolic Maps in Postnatal Development and in Adults: A
Deoxyglucose Study in the Whisker-to-Barrel Pathway of the Mouse."
MRC Cyclotron Unit, The Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK.
"Plasticity
of Metabolic Maps in Postnatal Development and in Adults: A
Deoxyglucose Study in the Whisker-to-Barrel Pathway of the Mouse."
Dept.
of Neuropathology, The Bethlem Royal Hospital & the Maudsley
Hospital, London, UK.
"Changements
de l'activité métabolique du système
somatosensoriel de la souris adulte après une lésion de
l'innervation des vibrisses: une étude de la radioautographie
de déoxyglucose."
Dept. of Clinical Neurophysiology, Pierre Wertheimer Hospital of
Neurology and Neurosurgery, Lyon, France.
1989: "Plasticity
of Metabolic Maps in the Adult Brain: A Deoxyglucose Study in the
Whisker-to-Barrel Pathway of the Mouse."
Dept. of Physiology, the University of Maryland School of Medicine,
Baltimore, MD, USA.
1991: "Changes
in Functional Maps in the Somatosensory Pathway after Restricted
Lesions of the Periphery in Newborns: A Deoxyglucose Study of the
Mouse Whisker-to-Barrel Pathway."
NIH Research Festival, Bethesda, MD, USA.
1992: "Functional
Plasticity in the Mouse Whisker-to-Barrel Pathway Following Neonatal
Lesions of Whisker Follicles."
Institute of Anatomy, University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
"Functional
Plasticity in the Mouse Whisker-to-Barrel Pathway Following Lesions
of Whisker Follicles."
Dept. of Neurobiology, Rockefeller Institute, New York, NY, USA.
"Functional
Plasticity in the Whisker-to-Barrel Pathway of the Somatosensory
System of Developing and Adult Rodents." Dept.
of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA.
1994: "Plasticity
in the Whisker-to-Barrel Pathway of the Mouse." NIH
Integrative Neuroscience Seminar, Bethesda, MD, USA.
"Plasticity
in the Whisker-to-Barrel Pathway of the Mouse." Dept.
of Anatomy, USUHS, Bethesda, MD, USA.
"Expression
of c-fos and zif268 in the Rat Barrel Cortex." Dept.
of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA.
"Stimulus-related
Metabolic Maps in the Mouse Whisker-to-Barrel Pathway."
Max-Planck-Institute
of Neurological Research, Cologne, FRG.
1996: "Plasticity
of Somatotopic Representation in the Adult Mouse Whisker-to-Barrel
Pathway after Restricted Lesions in the Peripheral Receptor Sheet."
Dept.
of Biology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA.
1997: Plasticity
of Metabolic Whisker Representations in the Adult Mouse
Whisker-to-Barrel Pathway after Whisker Follicle Removal: A Possible
Role for the Reorganization of Peripheral Innervation.
Barrels X, New Orleans, LA, USA.
1999: "Cortical
Activation During Braille Reading: A fMRI Study." Dept.
of Opthalmology and Visual Research, Vanderbilt University Medical
Center, Nashville, TN, USA.
2000: "Cortical
Activation during Braille Reading is Influenced by Early Visual
Experience: A Spectral fMRI Study." Dept.
of Opthalmology and Visual Research, Vanderbilt University Medical
Center, Nashville, TN, USA.
2001: "Response
Behavior and Magnitude of Local Cerebral Activation in Braille
Readers: A Study with Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging."
Laboratory
of Cerebral Metabolism, NIMH, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA.
2002: "Maker
or No Maker? Answers from Research in Brain Plasticity." Dept.
of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA.
2007: "Cortical
Plasticity: Change in Design or Modification." Dept. of
Biomedical Sciences, VetMed. Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA.
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