Longitudinal course of cortical thickness decline in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Journal of Neurology

Volumn 261, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1871-1880

  Schuster, Christina ^a   Kasper, Elisabeth ^a,b   Machts, Judith ^a   Bittner, Daniel ^c   Kaufmann, Jörn ^c   Benecke, Reiner ^b   Teipel, Stefan ^a,b   Vielhaber, Stefan ^a,c   Prudlo, Johannes ^a,b  

^a GERMAN CENTER FOR NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES DZNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^c OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; Cortical thickness; FreeSurfer; Longitudinal analysis; Motor neuron disease; MRI

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL THICKNESS (BRAIN); CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRONTAL GYRUS; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; INSULA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; MOTONEURON; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL GYRUS; PARIETAL LOBE; PARIETO-OCCIPITAL SULCUS; PHENOTYPE; POSTCENTRAL GYRUS; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PRECUNEUS; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS; SUPRAMARGINAL GYRUS; AGED; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN INJURIES; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLASSIFICATION; COMPLICATION; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; IMAGE PROCESSING; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY;

AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; BRAIN INJURIES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 84914094607     PISSN: 03405354     EISSN: 14321459     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00415-014-7426-4     Document Type: Article

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