The relationship between total and regional corpus callosum atrophy, cognitive impairment and fatigue in multiple sclerosis patients

Multiple Sclerosis Journal

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 356-364

  Yaldizli, Özgür ^a   Penner, Iris Katharina ^a,b   Frontzek, Karl ^c   Naegelin, Yvonne ^a   Amann, Michael ^a   Papadopoulou, Athina ^a,d   Sprenger, Till ^a   Kuhle, Jens ^a,e   Calabrese, Pasquale ^b   Radü, Ernst Wilhelm ^a   Kappos, Ludwig ^a   Gass, Achim ^a,f  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d Medical Image Analysis Center   (Switzerland)

^e QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

cognition; corpus callosum atrophy; fatigue; Multiple sclerosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN SIZE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE DURATION; EXPANDED DISABILITY STATUS SCALE; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; RELAPSE; REMISSION; COGNITIVE FUNCTION TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM ATROPHY; CORPUS CALLOSUM INDEX; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; MEMORY TEST; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE ASSESSMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PACED AUDITORY SERIAL ADDITION TEST; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SYMBOL DIGIT MODALITIES TEST; VERBAL FLUENCY TEST;

COGNITION; CORPUS CALLOSUM ATROPHY; FATIGUE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS;

ADULT; ATROPHY; COGNITION DISORDERS; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS;

EID: 84895743885     PISSN: 13524585     EISSN: 14770970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1352458513496880     Document Type: Article

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