Disruption of limbic pathways in a case of profound amnesia

Neurocase

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 226-228

  Papanicolaou, A C ^a   Hasan, K M ^a   Boake, C ^a   Eluvathingal, Thomas J ^a   Kramer, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Amnesia; Conventional magnetic resonance imaging (CMRI); Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI); Fornix; Neuroimaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AMNESIA; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN FORNIX; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFUSE AXONAL INJURY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FRONTAL CORTEX; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORBIT FRACTURE; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; AMNESIA; BRAIN MAPPING; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE;

EID: 36348929309     PISSN: 13554794     EISSN: 14653656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13554790701594854     Document Type: Article

References (11)

1. Beaulieu, C. (2002) The basis of anisotropic water diffusion in the nervous system - A technical review. NMR Biomedicine,15, 43, pp. 5-455.
2. Hasan, K. M. and Narayana, P. A. (2003) Computation of the fractional anisotropy and mean diffusivity maps without tensor decoding and diagonalization: Theoretical analysis and validation. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 50, pp. 589-598.
3. Hasan, K. M., Gupta, R. K., Santos, R. M., Wolinsky, J. S. and Narayana, P. A. (2005) Diffusion tensor fractional anisotropy of the normal-appearing seven segments of the corpus callosum in healthy adults and relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis patients. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 21, pp. 735-743.
4. Jiang, H., van Zijl, P. C., Kim, J., Pearlson, G. D. and Mori, S. (2006) DtiStudio: Resource program for diffusion tensor computation and fiber bundle tracking. Computer Methods &Programs in Biomedicine, 81, pp. 106-116.
5. Bihan, D. Le (2003) Looking into the functional architecture of the brain with diffusion MRI. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 4:6, pp. 469-480.
6. Netsch, T. and van Muiswinkel, A. (2004) Quantitative evaluation of image-based distortion correction in diffusion tensor imaging. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 23, pp. 789-798.
7. Papanicolaou, A. C. (2006) The amnesias: A clinical textbook of memory disorders, Oxford University Press, New York
8. Tate, D. F. and Bigler, E. D. (2000) Fornix and hippocampal atrophy in traumatic brain injury. Learning and Memory, 7, pp. 442-446.
9. Teasdale, G. and Jennett, B. (1974) Assessment of coma and impaired consciousness. A practical scale. Lancet, 2:7872, pp. 81-84.
10. Tomaiuolo, F., Worsley, K. J., Lerch, J., Paola, M. Di, Carlesimo, G. A. and Bonanni, R. (2005) Changes in white matter in long-term survivors of severe non-missile traumatic brain injury: A computational analysis of magnetic resonance images. Journal of Neurotrauma, 22, pp. 76-82.
11. Xu, D., Mori, S., Solaiyappan, M., van Zijl, P. C. and Davatzikos, C. (2002) A framework for callosal fiber distribution analysis. Neuroimage, 17, pp. 1131-1143.