Characteristics of the aberrant pyramidal tract in comparison with the pyramidal tract in the human brain

BMC Neuroscience

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Kwon, Hyeok G ^a   Son, Su M ^a   Chang, Min C ^a   Kim, Saeyoon ^a   Kwon, Yong H ^b   Jang, Sung H ^a  

^a Yeungnam University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Yeungnam College of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MEDIAL LEMNISCUS; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MESENCEPHALON; NORMAL HUMAN; PONS; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIMARY SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; BRAIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NERVOUS SYSTEM MALFORMATION; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVOUS SYSTEM MALFORMATIONS; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80055063217     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2202-12-108     Document Type: Article

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