Thalamo-cortical network pathology in idiopathic generalized epilepsy: Insights from MRI-based morphometric correlation analysis

NeuroImage

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 373-381

  Bernhardt, Boris C ^a   Rozen, Daniel A ^a   Worsley, Keith J ^a   Evans, Alan C ^a   Bernasconi, Neda ^a   Bernasconi, Andrea ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THALAMUS; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EPILEPSY, GENERALIZED; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; THALAMUS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 64049104582     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.01.055     Document Type: Article

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