Fronto-cerebellar circuits and eye movement control: A diffusion imaging tractography study of human cortico-pontine projections

Brain Research

Volumn 1307, Issue , 2010, Pages 63-71

  Doron, Karl W ^a   Funk, Chadd M ^a   Glickstein, Mitchell ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cerebellum; Cognition; DTI; Eye movement; Premotor theory of attention; Tractography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CEREBELLUM; CEREBRAL PEDUNCLE; CINGULATE GYRUS; COGNITION; DIFFUSION IMAGING TRACTOGRAPHY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NERVE FIBER; NEUROTRANSMISSION; ORBIT; PLANNING; PONS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNAPSE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBELLUM; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PONS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70749090025     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2009.10.029     Document Type: Article

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