MRI-Based Brain Structure Volumes in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy Patients and their Unaffected Siblings: A Preliminary Study

Journal of Neuroimaging

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 64-70

  Scanlon, Cathy ^a,b   Ronan, Lisa ^a   Doherty, Colin P ^a,c   Cavalleri, Gianpiero L ^a,d   Tirupati, Sandya ^a   Alhusaini, Saud ^a,c   Maguire, Sinead ^a   Delanty, Norman ^a   Iyer, Parameswaran M ^a   Chaila, Elijah ^a   Fitzsimons, Mary ^a  

^a BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^c ST JAMES S HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^d ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Endophenotype; FreeSurfer; MRI; Temporal lobe epilepsy; Volume

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BRAIN SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIBLING; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; THALAMUS; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; BRAIN; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIBLINGS;

EID: 84872607190     PISSN: 10512284     EISSN: 15526569     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1552-6569.2012.00736.x     Document Type: Article

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