Graph-theoretical analysis reveals disrupted small-world organization of cortical thickness correlation networks in temporal lobe epilepsy

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2147-2157

  Bernhardt, Boris C ^a   Chen, Zhang ^a   He, Yong ^b   Evans, Alan C ^a   Bernasconi, Neda ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

cortical thickness; epilepsy, graph theory; small world networks

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BOOTSTRAPPING; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SURGERY; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSULA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; ANATOMY, CROSS-SECTIONAL; ATROPHY; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COHORT STUDIES; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE NET; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80051766852     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhq291     Document Type: Article

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