Gray-matter volume reduction in the thalamus and frontal lobe in epileptic patients with generalized tonic-clonic seizures

Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 298-303

  Huang, Wei ^a,b   Lu, Guangming ^a   Zhang, Zhiqiang ^a   Zhong, Yuan ^a   Wang, Zhengge ^a   Yuan, Cuiping ^a   Jiao, Qing ^a   Qian, Zhiyu ^b   Tan, Qifu ^a   Chen, Guanghui ^a   Zhang, Zongun ^a   Liu, Yijun ^c  

^a MEDICAL SCHOOL OF NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Frontal lobe; Generalized tonic clonic seizures (GTCS); Thalamus; Voxel based morphometry (VBM)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CEREBELLUM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FRONTAL GYRUS; FRONTAL LOBE; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; INSULA; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; THALAMUS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

ADULT; EPILEPSY, TONIC-CLONIC; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURONS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THALAMUS;

EID: 82455175291     PISSN: 01509861     EISSN: 17730406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurad.2010.12.007     Document Type: Article

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