Microstructural Damage of the Posterior Corpus Callosum Contributes to the Clinical Severity of Neglect

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Bozzali, Marco ^a   Mastropasqua, Chiara ^a   Cercignani, Mara ^a,b   Giulietti, Giovanni ^a   Bonnì, Sonia ^a   Caltagirone, Carlo ^a,c   Koch, Giacomo ^a,c  

^a IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^b BRIGHTON AND SUSSEX MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL INATTENTION TEST; BRAIN DAMAGE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; MALE; NEGLECT; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; STATISTICS; TRACT BASED SPATIAL STATISTICS; WHITE MATTER;

AGED; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE NET; NEURAL INHIBITION; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE;

EID: 84868146592     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0048079     Document Type: Article

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