Widespread white matter changes in Kennedy disease: A voxel based morphometry study

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 78, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1209-1212

  Kassubek, Jan ^a   Juengling, Freimut D ^b   Sperfeld, Anne D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN SIZE; BRAIN STEM; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CEREBELLUM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; GRAY MATTER; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; KENNEDY DISEASE; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MESENCEPHALON; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRICS; NEUROPATHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WHITE MATTER; ATROPHY; BRAIN; FRONTAL LOBE; GENETICS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; IMAGE PROCESSING; MIDDLE AGED; MYELINATED NERVE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY;

ADULT; ATROPHY; BRAIN; BRAIN STEM; CEREBELLUM; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MESENCEPHALON; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCULAR ATROPHY, SPINAL; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION;

EID: 35748984413     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: 1468330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2006.112532     Document Type: Article

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