Brain networks of spatial awareness: Evidence from diffusion tensor imaging tractography

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 79, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 598-601

  Urbanski, M ^a,e   Thiebaut De Schotten, M ^a   Rodrigo, S ^b   Catani, M ^c   Oppenheim, C ^b   Touze E ^b   Chokron, S ^d   Meder J F ^b   Levy, R ^a   Dubois, B ^a   Bartolomeo, P ^a  

^a PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^b CENTRE HOSPITALIER SAINTE ANNE   (France)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE MENDÈS FRANCE   (France)

^e INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BRAIN REGION; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WHITE MATTER; BRAIN CORTEX; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; IMAGE PROCESSING; KINESTHESIA; MIDDLE AGED; MYELINATED NERVE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTION DISORDER; PHYSIOLOGY; STROKE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; AWARENESS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; KINESTHESIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NERVE NET; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; STROKE;

EID: 42449120530     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: 1468330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2007.126276     Document Type: Article

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