Preliminary evidence of abnormal white matter related to the fusiform gyrus in Williams syndrome: A diffusion tensor imaging tractography study

Genes, Brain and Behavior

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 62-68

  Haas, B W ^a   Hoeft, F ^a   Barnea Goraly, N ^a   Golarai, G ^b   Bellugi, U ^c   Reiss, A L ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

DTI; Fusiform; Genetics; Tractography; Williams syndrome

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WHITE MATTER; WILLIAMS BEUREN SYNDROME;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHIES; MALE; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROANATOMICAL TRACT-TRACING TECHNIQUES; OCCIPITAL LOBE; REFERENCE VALUES; TEMPORAL LOBE; WILLIAMS SYNDROME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84855747339     PISSN: 16011848     EISSN: 1601183X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1601-183X.2011.00733.x     Document Type: Article

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