Degeneration of corpus callosum and recovery of motor function after stroke: A multimodal magnetic resonance imaging study

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2941-2956

  Wang, Ling E ^a,b,c,d   Tittgemeyer, Marc ^c   Imperati, Davide ^c   Diekhoff, Svenja ^c   Ameli, Mitra ^e   Fink, Gereon R ^a,e   Grefkes, Christian ^a,c,e  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR NEUROLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Corpus callosum; Diffusion MRI; DTI; FMRI; Motor deficits

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HAND MOVEMENT; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MARCHIAFAVA BIGNAMI DISEASE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MYELIN SHEATH; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDICTION; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SUBCORTICAL STROKE; SUPERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WHITE MATTER INJURY; WHITE MATTER ISCHEMIA;

EID: 84868655576     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.21417     Document Type: Article

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