White-matter lesions drive deep gray-matter atrophy in early multiple sclerosis: Support from structural MRI

Multiple Sclerosis Journal

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1485-1492

  Mühlau, Mark ^a   Buck, Dorothea ^a   Förschler, Annette ^b   Boucard, Christine C ^a   Arsic, Milan ^a   Schmidt, Paul ^a,c   Gaser, Christian ^d   Berthele, Achim ^a   Hoshi, Muna ^a   Jochim, Angela ^a   Kronsbein, Helena ^a   Zimmer, Claus ^b   Hemmer, Bernhard ^a   Ilg, Rüdiger ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

brain damage; clinically isolated syndrome; gray matter atrophy; magnetic resonance imaging; Multiple sclerosis; relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis; voxel based morphometry; white matter lesions

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMYELINATING DISEASE; EXPANDED DISABILITY STATUS SCALE; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PULVINAR; WHITE MATTER LESION;

BRAIN DAMAGE; CLINICALLY-ISOLATED SYNDROME; GRAY-MATTER ATROPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; RELAPSING-REMITTING MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; VOXEL-BASED MORPHOMETRY; WHITE-MATTER LESIONS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ATROPHY; BRAIN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEMYELINATING DISEASES; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS, RELAPSING-REMITTING; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84884538743     PISSN: 13524585     EISSN: 14770970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1352458513478673     Document Type: Article

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