Altered microstructural connectivity in juvenile myoclonic epilepsy The missing link

Neurology

Volumn 78, Issue 20, 2012, Pages 1555-1559

  Vollmar, C ^a,b   O'Muircheartaigh, J ^c   Symms, M R ^a   Barker, G J ^c   Thompson, P ^a   Kumari, V ^c   Stretton, J ^a   Duncan, J S ^a   Richardson, M P ^c   Koepp, M J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MOTOR CORTEX; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; NEUROIMAGING; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA; TRACTOGRAPHY; BLOOD; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITIVE DEFECT; FEMALE; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NERVE TRACT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; VASCULARIZATION;

OXYGEN;

BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION DISORDERS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MYOCLONIC EPILEPSY, JUVENILE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN;

EID: 84863581483     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e3182563b44     Document Type: Article

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