"Unertan syndrome" in two Turkish families in relation to devolution and emergence of homo erectus: Neurological examination, MRI, and PET scans

International Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 313-336

  Tan, Üner ^a   Pençe, Sadrettin ^b   Yilmaz, Mustafa ^b   Özkur, Ayhan ^b   Karaca, Sibel ^c   Tan, Meliha ^c   Karatas, Mehmet ^c  

^a CUKUROVA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b GAZIANTEP UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c BASKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Brain; Cerebellum; Devolution; MRI; PET; Quadrupedality; Unertan syndrome

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CALORIC VESTIBULAR TEST; CEREBELLUM; CEREBELLUM HYPOPLASIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DYSARTHRIA; FAMILY STUDY; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDER; GENETIC DISORDER; HUMAN; HYPERREFLEXIA; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NYSTAGMUS; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); UNERTAN SYNDROME; VESTIBULAR SYSTEM;

ADULT; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 17; CONSANGUINITY; EVOLUTION; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GAIT; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; LOCOMOTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SYNDROME;

EID: 40049103900     PISSN: 00207454     EISSN: 15635279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207450701667766     Document Type: Article

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