Striatal gray matter loss in Huntington's disease is leftward biased

Movement Disorders

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1169-1173

  Mühlau, Mark ^a   Gaser, Christian ^b   Wohlschläger, Afra M ^a   Weindl, Adolf ^a   Städtler, Michael ^a   Valet, Michael ^a   Zimmer, Claus ^a   Kassubek, Jan ^c   Peinemann, Alexander ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gray matter loss; Huntington's disease; Lateralization, striatum; Voxel based morphometry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HETEROZYGOTE DETECTION; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN; COGNITION DISORDERS; CORPUS STRIATUM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 34447559713     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.21137     Document Type: Article

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