Extramotor damage is associated with cognition in primary lateral sclerosis patients

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Canu, Elisa ^a   Agosta, Federica ^a   Galantucci, Sebastiano ^a   Chiò, Adriano ^b   Riva, Nilo ^a   Silani, Vincenzo ^c   Falini, Andrea ^a   Comi, Giancarlo ^a   Filippi, Massimo ^a  

^a VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR LIMB OF INTERNAL CAPSULE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FORNIX; BRAIN STEM; CAPSULA INTERNA; CEREBELLUM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFERIOR LONGITUDINAL BUNDLE; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NERVE TRACT; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIMARY LATERAL SCLEROSIS; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SUPERIOR LONGITUDINAL BUNDLE; THALAMIC RADIATION; THALAMUS; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; AGED; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN STEM; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COGNITION; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FORNIX, BRAIN; HUMANS; INTERNAL CAPSULE; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PARIETAL LOBE; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS;

EID: 84891953483     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0082017     Document Type: Article

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