Dissociation of grey and white matter reduction in spinocerebellar ataxia type 3 and 6: A voxel-based morphometry study

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 408, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 230-235

  Lukas, Carsten ^a   Schöls, Ludger ^b   Bellenberg, Barbara ^a   Rüb, Udo ^c   Przuntek, Horst ^a   Schmid, Gebhard ^a   Köster, Odo ^a   Suchan, Boris ^d  

^a ST JOSEF HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atrophy; Cerebellum; MRI; Spinocerebellar ataxia type 3 and type 6; Voxel based morphometry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN SIZE; CEREBELLUM ATROPHY; CEREBELLUM VERMIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE NUCLEUS; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PONS; PONS ANGLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLE SIZE; SPINOCEREBELLAR DEGENERATION; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 33749515747     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2006.09.007     Document Type: Article

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