Cognitive performance in pure and complicated hereditary spastic paraparesis: a neuropsychological and neuroimaging study

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 419, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 158-161

  Uttner, Ingo ^a   Baumgartner, Annette ^a   Sperfeld, Anne Dorte ^a   Kassubek, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cognitive impairment; Hereditary spastic paraparesis; Magnetic resonance imaging; Neurodegenerative disorders

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEREDITARY MOTOR SENSORY NEUROPATHY; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; ATROPHY; BRAIN; BRAIN DAMAGE, CHRONIC; COGNITION DISORDERS; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SPASTIC PARAPLEGIA, HEREDITARY;

EID: 34248220446     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2007.04.031     Document Type: Article

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