Thalamic volume and thalamo-cortical white matter tracts correlate with motor and verbal memory performance

NeuroImage

Volumn 91, Issue , 2014, Pages 77-83

  Philp, David J ^a,b   Korgaonkar, Mayuresh S ^a,b   Grieve, Stuart M ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor imaging; Fractional anisotropy; Magnetic resonance imaging; Motor task performance; Probabilistic tractography; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MOTOR TASK PERFORMANCE; PROBABILISTIC TRACTOGRAPHY; THALAMUS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANISOTROPY; ATTENTION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR SKILLS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; THALAMUS; VERBAL LEARNING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84894241214     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.12.057     Document Type: Article

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