Are amygdalar volume alterations in children with Tourette syndrome due to ADHD comorbidity?

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 524-529

  Ludolph, Andrea G ^a   Pinkhardt, Elmar H ^a   Tebartz van Elst, Ludger ^b   Libal, Gerhard ^a   Ludolph, Albert C ^a   Fegert, Jorg M ^a   Kassubek, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; GILLES DE LA TOURETTE SYNDROME; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SYMPTOM; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VOLUMETRY;

ADOLESCENT; AMYGDALA; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; BRAIN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TOURETTE SYNDROME;

EID: 47149105837     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: 14698749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8749.2008.03014.x     Document Type: Article

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