Anisotropy of transcallosal motor fibres indicates functional impairment in children with periventricular leukomalacia

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 179-186

  Koerte, Inga ^a,b   Pelavin, Paula ^b   Kirmess, Berit ^a   Fuchs, Teresa ^a   Berweck, Steffen ^a   Laubender, Ruediger P ^c   Borggraefe, Ingo ^a   Schroeder, Sebastian ^a   Danek, Adrian ^c   Rummeny, Claudia ^a   Reiser, Maximilian ^a   Kubicki, Marek ^b   Shenton, Martha E ^b,d   Ertl Wagner, Birgit ^a   Heinen, Florian ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN VENTRICLE; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GROSS MOTOR FUNCTION CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; LEUKOMALACIA; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE FIBER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; WHITE MATTER;

ADOLESCENT; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILD; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFANT, NEWBORN; LEUKOMALACIA, PERIVENTRICULAR; MALE; MOTOR NEURONS; NERVE FIBERS; NEURAL INHIBITION; PSYCHOMOTOR DISORDERS; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 78751555014     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: 14698749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8749.2010.03840.x     Document Type: Article

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