Distinct white matter abnormalities in different idiopathic generalized epilepsy syndromes

Epilepsia

Volumn 52, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2267-2275

  Liu, Min ^a   Concha, Luis ^b   Beaulieu, Christian ^a   Gross, Donald W ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor imaging; Idiopathic generalized epilepsy; Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy; Tractography

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CAPSULA INTERNA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; FRONTAL CORTEX; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; MALE; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SUPERIOR LONGITUDINAL BUNDLE; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; UNCINATE FASCICULUS; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WHITE MATTER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EPILEPSY, GENERALIZED; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MYOCLONIC EPILEPSY, JUVENILE; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 82955233564     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2011.03313.x     Document Type: Article

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