Cerebellar and visual gray matter brain volume increases in congenital nystagmus

Frontiers in Neurology

Volumn SEP, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Hüfner, Katharina ^a   Stephan, Thomas ^a   Flanagin, Virginia L ^a   Deutschländer, Angela ^a   Dera, Thomas ^a   Karch, Cornelia ^a   Linn, Jennifer ^a   Glasauer, Stefan ^a   Dieterich, Marianne ^a   Strupp, Michael ^a   Brandt, Thomas ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Congenital nystagmus; Gray matter changes; Structural brain imaging; Voxel based morphometry

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865840234     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16642295     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2011.00060     Document Type: Article

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