Saccadic Eye Movement Characteristics in Adult Niemann-Pick Type C Disease: Relationships with Disease Severity and Brain Structural Measures

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Abel, Larry A ^a   Bowman, Elizabeth A ^a   Velakoulis, Dennis ^a,b   Fahey, Michael C ^d   Desmond, Patricia ^a,b   Macfarlane, Matthew D ^c   Looi, Jeffrey Chee Leong ^c   Adamson, Christopher L ^e   Walterfang, Mark ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c The Australian National University   (Australia)

^d MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e MURDOCH CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CEREBELLUM VERMIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FRONTAL EYE FIELD; HUMAN; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; NIEMANN PICK DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL CORTEX; PARIETAL EYE FIELD; PONS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SUPPLEMENTAL EYE FIELD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NIEMANN-PICK DISEASE, TYPE C; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VISUAL FIELDS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84870601632     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0050947     Document Type: Article

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