Cortical thickness analysis in temporal lobe epilepsy: Reproducibility and relation to outcome

Neurology

Volumn 74, Issue 22, 2010, Pages 1776-1784

  Bernhardt, Boris C ^a   Bernasconi, Neda ^a   Concha, Luis ^a   Bernasconi, Andrea ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX ATROPHY; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CONTROL; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEOCORTEX; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEIZURE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; THICKNESS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ATROPHY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77953176345     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e3181e0f80a     Document Type: Article

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