Visual system integrity and cognition in early Huntington's disease

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 2417-2426

  Wolf, Robert C ^a   Sambataro, Fabio ^b   Vasic, Nenad ^c   Baldas, Eva Maria ^c   Ratheiser, Iris ^c   Bernhard Landwehrmeyer, Georg ^c   Depping, Malte S ^a   Thomann, Philipp A ^a   Sprengelmeyer, Reiner ^d   Süssmuth, Sigurd D ^c   Orth, Michael ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b Center for Neuroscience and Cognitive Systems UniTn   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Independent component analysis; Magnetic resonance imaging; Occipital cortex; Resting state

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN CORTEX; CEREBELLUM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPATHOLOGY; ONSET AGE; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL SYSTEM; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; TEMPORAL LOBE;

CEREBELLUM; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SPACE PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 84904598642     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ejn.12575     Document Type: Article

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