Structural and functional hallmarks of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis progression in motor- and memory-related brain regions

NeuroImage: Clinical

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages 277-290

  Stoppel, Christian Michael ^a   Vielhaber, Stefan ^a,b   Eckart, Cindy ^a,c   Machts, Judith ^a   Kaufmann, Jörn ^a   Heinze, Hans Jochen ^a,d   Kollewe, Katja ^e   Petri, Susanne ^e   Dengler, Reinhard ^e   Hopf, Jens Max ^a,d   Schoenfeld, Mircea Ariel ^a,d,f  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b GERMAN CENTER FOR NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES DZNE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^d LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^e HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^f Kliniken Schmieder   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; Hippocampus; Longitudinal fMRI; Novelty processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; VERY ELDERLY; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 84905488119     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22131582     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2014.07.007     Document Type: Article

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