Alterations of white matter diffusion anisotropy in early deafness

NeuroReport

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1032-1036

  Kim, Dae Jin ^a   Park, Seong Yong ^a   Kim, Jinna ^a   Lee, Dong Ha ^a   Park, Hae Jeong ^a  

^a Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Early deaf; Tract based spatial statistics; Voxel based morphometry; White matter

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; CAPSULA INTERNA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL CORTEX; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; DEAFNESS; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; ORGAN SIZE;

EID: 67749095829     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e32832e0cdd     Document Type: Article

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