Thalamic infarction disrupts spinothalamocortical projection to the mid-cingulate cortex and supplementary motor area

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 281, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 104-107

  Kishi, Masahiko ^a   Sakakibara, Ryuji ^a   Nagao, Takeki ^b   Terada, Hitoshi ^b   Ogawa, Emina ^a  

^a National Hospital Organization   (Japan)

^b TOHO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cingulate cortex; Heat anesthesia; Stroke; Supplementary motor area; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

AMLODIPINE; CLONAZEPAM; CYSTEINE ETHYL ESTER TC 99M; NORPHENAZONE; OZAGREL;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CASE REPORT; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DYSESTHESIA; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; HEAT ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULVINAR; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; THALAMUS INFARCTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BRAIN INFARCTION; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FRONTAL LOBE; GYRUS CINGULI; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL PATHWAYS; SOMATOSENSORY DISORDERS; SPINOTHALAMIC TRACTS; THALAMIC DISEASES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 67349194296     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2009.03.012     Document Type: Article

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