Voxel-based morphometry and epilepsy

Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 975-984

  Yasuda, Clarissa Lin ^a   Betting, Luiz Eduardo ^a   Cendes, Fernando ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Epilepsy surgery; Extratemporal epilepsy; Idiopathic generalized epilepsy; SPM; Statistical parametric mapping; Temporal lobe epilepsy; Voxel based morphometry

Indexed keywords

BENIGN CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY; BRAIN ATROPHY; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CORTICAL DYSPLASIA; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EPILEPSY; FRONTAL CORTEX; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; GRAY MATTER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; INCIDENCE; MORPHOLOGY; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REVIEW; SEIZURE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; THALAMUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WHITE MATTER;

ATROPHY; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 77953178310     PISSN: 14737175     EISSN: 17448360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/ern.10.63     Document Type: Review

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