Motor callosal disconnection in early relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 846-855

  Wahl, Mathias ^a   Hübers, Annemarie ^a   Lauterbach Soon, Birgit ^a   Hattingen, Elke ^a   Jung, Patrick ^a   Cohen, Leonardo G ^b   Ziemann, Ulf ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bifocal transcranial magnetic stimulation; Diffusion tensor imaging; Effective connectivity; Interhemispheric inhibition; Motor corpus callosum; Multiple sclerosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXPANDED DISABILITY STATUS SCALE; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HAND FUNCTION; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; INTERHEMISPHERIC TRANSFER; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NERVE CELL; NERVE CONDUCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFANT; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS, RELAPSING-REMITTING; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955715345     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.21071     Document Type: Article

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