Whole-brain voxel-based morphometry study of children and adolescents with Down syndrome

Functional Neurology

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 19-28

  Carducci, Filippo ^a,b,c   Onorati, Paolo ^c,d   Condoluci, Claudia ^d   Di Gennaro, Giancarlo ^e   Quarato, Pier Paolo ^e   Pierallini, Alberto ^d   Sarà, Marco ^b   Miano, Silvia ^d   Cornia, Riccardo ^c,d   Albertini, Giorgio ^a  

^a San Raffaele Cassino   (Italy)

^b Sapienza University of Rome ^*  (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^d IRCCS SAN RAFFAELE PISANA   (Italy)

^e IRCCS NEUROMED   (Italy)

Author keywords

Down syndrome; Magnetic resonance imaging; Voxelbased morphometry

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; CEREBELLUM; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GRAY MATTER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; PARIETAL LOBE; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WHITE MATTER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; CHROMOSOME 21; GENETICS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; CHILD; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 21; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84881261659     PISSN: 03935264     EISSN: 19713274     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11138/FNeur/2013.28.1.019     Document Type: Article

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