Do eye movement impairments in patients with small vessel cerebrovascular disease depend on lesion load or on cognitive deficits? A video-oculographic and MRI study

Journal of Neurology

Volumn 261, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 791-803

  Pinkhardt, Elmar H ^a   Issa, Hazem ^a   Gorges, Martin ^a   Jürgens, Reinhart ^a   Lulé, Dorothée ^a   Heimrath, Johanna ^a   Müller, Hans Peter ^a   Ludolph, Albert C ^a   Becker, Wolfgang ^a   Kassubek, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cognition; Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); Oculomotor function; Small vessel cerebrovascular disease; Video oculography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPUTER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DETERIORATION; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCULOGRAPHY; OCULOMOTOR SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMALL VESSEL CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; VERY ELDERLY; VIDEORECORDING; WHITE MATTER LESION; BASAL GANGLIA DISEASES; COGNITION DISORDERS; COHORT ANALYSIS; EYE MOVEMENT; HEAD MOVEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; OCULAR MOTILITY DISORDERS; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BASAL GANGLIA DISEASES; CEREBRAL SMALL VESSEL DISEASES; COGNITION DISORDERS; COHORT STUDIES; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HEAD MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OCULAR MOTILITY DISORDERS;

EID: 84898888306     PISSN: 03405354     EISSN: 14321459     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00415-014-7275-1     Document Type: Article

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