Cognitive deficits in Friedreich ataxia correlate with micro-structural changes in dentatorubral tract

Cerebellum

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 187-198

  Akhlaghi, Hamed ^a   Yu, Johnson ^b   Corben, Louise ^a,c   Georgiou Karistianis, Nellie ^a   Bradshaw, John L ^a   Storey, Elsdon ^a   Delatycki, Martin B ^c,d   Egan, Gary F ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c MURDOCH CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^d AUSTIN HEALTH   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dentate nucleus; Dentato rubral tract; Dentato thalamic tract; Diffusion MRI; Friedreich's ataxia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; DENTATORUBRAL TRACT; DENTATOTHALAMIC TRACT; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; FRIEDREICH ATAXIA; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE TRACT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESPONSE TIME; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; TRACTOGRAPHY; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; ANISOTROPY; CEREBELLAR NUCLEI; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITION DISORDERS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRIEDREICH ATAXIA; HUMANS; MALE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME; RED NUCLEUS; THALAMUS;

EID: 84896282383     PISSN: 14734222     EISSN: 14734230     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12311-013-0525-4     Document Type: Article

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