White matter impairment in the basal ganglia-thalamocortical circuit of drug-naïve childhood absence epilepsy

Epilepsy Research

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 267-273

  Yang, Tianhua ^a   Guo, Zhiwei ^b   Luo, Cheng ^b   Li, Qifu ^a   Yan, Bo ^a   Liu, Ling ^a   Gong, Qiyong ^a   Yao, Dezhong ^b   Zhou, Dong ^a  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Childhood absence epilepsy; Diffusion tensor imaging; Voxel based analysis; White matter

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN STEM; CAPSULA INTERNA; CHILD; CHILDHOOD ABSENCE EPILEPSY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISEASE DURATION; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MEAN DIFFUSIVITY; NERVE EXCITABILITY; ONSET AGE; PARIETAL LOBE; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; THALAMUS; VOXEL BASED ANALYSIS; WHITE MATTER INJURY;

BASAL GANGLIA; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; THALAMUS;

EID: 84860452172     PISSN: 09201211     EISSN: 18726844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2011.12.006     Document Type: Article

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