Musicians form an ideal subject pool in which one can investigate possible cerebral adaptations
to unique requirements of skilled performance as well as cerebral correlates of unique …

Playing a musical instrument is an intense, multisensory, and motor experience that usually
commences at an early age and requires the acquisition and maintenance of a range of …

… of data: Schlaug, Renga, and Nair. Drafting of the manuscript: Schlaug, Renga, and Nair.
Critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content: Schlaug, Renga, and Nair. …

Objective To determine whether prespecified baseline magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
profiles can identify stroke patients who have a robust clinical response after early reperfusion …

From an early age, musicians learn complex motor and auditory skills (eg, the translation of
visually perceived musical symbols into motor commands with simultaneous auditory …

Using in-vivo magnetic resonance morphometry it was investigated whether the midsagittal
area of the corpus callosum (CC) would differ between 30 professional musicians and 30 age…

… to 20 mL/100 g/min, although some reports give a range between 7 and 45 mL/100 g/min) …
human brain region is approximately 50 mL/100 g/min34; a reduction of our calculated CBF …

The human brain has the remarkable capacity to alter in response to environmental demands.
Training-induced structural brain changes have been demonstrated in the healthy adult …

Certain human talents, such as musical ability, have been associated with left-right differences
in brain structure and function. In vivo magnetic resonance morphometry of the brain in …

Diffusion-weighted MRI can rapidly detect acute cerebral ischemic injury as hyperintense
signal changes, reflecting a decline in the apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) of water through …