Cerebellar volume decline in normal aging, alcoholism, and Korsakoff's syndrome: Relation to ataxia

Neuropsychology

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 341-352

  Sullivan, Edith V ^a   Deshmukh, Anjali ^b   Desmond, John E ^c   Lim, Kelvin O ^d   Pfefferbaum, Adolf ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NATHAN S KLINE INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; BRAIN SIZE; CEREBELLUM; CEREBELLUM VERMIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GAIT; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; KORSAKOFF PSYCHOSIS; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 0033693891     PISSN: 08944105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0894-4105.14.3.341     Document Type: Article

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