Characterization of functional and structural integrity in experimental focal epilepsy: Reduced network efficiency coincides with white matter changes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Otte, Willem M ^a,b   Dijkhuizen, Rick M ^b   van Meer, Maurits P A ^a,b   van der Hel, Wilhelmina S ^a   Verlinde, Suzanne A M W ^a   van Nieuwenhuizen, Onno ^a   Viergever, Max A ^b   Stam, Cornelis J ^c   Braun, Kees P J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPTOGENESIS; FOCAL EPILEPSY; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; RAT; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; WHITE MATTER;

ANIMALS; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN MAPPING; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

RATTUS;

EID: 84863771591     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0039078     Document Type: Article

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