Decreased cerebellar fiber density in cortical myoclonic tremor but not in essential tremor

Cerebellum

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 199-204

  Buijink, Arthur W G ^a   Caan, Matthan W A ^a   Tijssen, Marina A J ^a,b   Hoogduin, Johannes M ^b,c   Maurits, Natasha M ^b   Van Rootselaar, Anne Fleur ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^d ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cerebellum; DTI; Epilepsy; Fiber density; Myoclonus; Tremor

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CELL DENSITY; CEREBELLUM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FAMILIAL CORTICAL MYOCLONIC TEMOR WITH EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; NERVE FIBER; NEUROANATOMICAL TRACT TRACING; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; TREMOR; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; AGED; ANISOTROPY; CEREBELLUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EPILEPSIES, MYOCLONIC; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84880307673     PISSN: 14734222     EISSN: 14734230     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12311-012-0414-2     Document Type: Article

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