Assessing the Correlation between Grey and White Matter Damage with Motor and Cognitive Impairment in Multiple Sclerosis Patients

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Sbardella, Emilia ^a   Petsas, Nikolaos ^a   Tona, Francesca ^a   Prosperini, Luca ^a   Raz, Eytan ^a   Pace, Gianvito ^a   Pozzilli, Carlo ^a   Pantano, Patrizia ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

9 HOLE PEG TEST; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN SIZE; CAPSULA INTERNA; CEREBELLUM; CEREBRAL PEDUNCLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISABILITY; EXPANDED DISABILITY STATUS SCALE; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS FUNCTIONAL COMPOSITE SCALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; ORBITAL CORTEX; PACED AUDITORY SERIAL ADDITION TEST; RATING SCALE; THALAMUS POSTERIOR NUCLEUS; TIMED 25 FEET WALKING TEST; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WHITE MATTER INJURY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84877810365     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0063250     Document Type: Article

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