Impaired structural motor connectome in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Verstraete, Esther ^a   Veldink, Jan H ^a   Mandl, Rene C W ^a   van den Berg, Leonard H ^a   van den Heuvel, Martijn P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROANATOMY; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PRECUNEUS; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; WHITE MATTER; BRAIN; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; BRAIN; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NERVE NET;

EID: 80052413218     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0024239     Document Type: Article

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