Cerebral and cerebellar motor activation abnormalities in a subject with Joubert syndrome: Functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) study

Journal of Child Neurology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 214-218

  Parisi, Melissa A ^a   Pinter, Joseph D ^b   Glass, Ian A ^a   Field, Katherine ^a   Maria, Bernard L ^c   Chance, Phillip F ^a   Mahurin, Roderick K ^a   Cramer, Steven C ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; AUTOPSY; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; BRAIN; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; BRAIN STEM; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLUM; CEREBELLUM CORTEX; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DEVICE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; JOUBERT SYNDROME; MUSCLE HYPOTONIA; NERVOUS SYSTEM INJURY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; RHOMBENCEPHALON; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN STEM; CEREBELLUM; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GENES, RECESSIVE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CORTEX; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; RECRUITMENT, NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL; REFERENCE VALUES; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPINOCEREBELLAR DEGENERATIONS; SYNDROME;

EID: 2342424350     PISSN: 08830738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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