Tract-specific white matter correlates of fatigue and cognitive impairment in benign multiple sclerosis

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 330, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 61-66

  Bester, Maxim ^b,c   Lazar, Mariana ^b   Petracca, Maria ^a,d   Babb, James S ^b   Herbert, Joseph ^b   Grossman, Robert I ^b   Inglese, Matilde ^a,b  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anterior thalamic tracts; Benign multiple sclerosis; Cognitive impairment; Corpus callosum tracts; Diffusion tensor imaging; Diffusion tensor tractography; Fatigue

Indexed keywords

GADOBENATE DIMEGLUMINE; GADOLINIUM PENTETATE MEGLUMINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE DURATION; DYSTHYMIA; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; EXPANDED DISABILITY STATUS SCALE; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; THALAMUS ANTERIOR NUCLEUS; TRACTOGRAPHY; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; AGED; ANISOTROPY; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION DISORDERS; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINOTHALAMIC TRACTS; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 84878536884     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: 18785883     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2013.04.005     Document Type: Article

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