Functional brain networks: Linking thalamic atrophy to clinical disability in multiple sclerosis, a multimodal fMRI and MEG Study

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 603-618

  Tewarie, Prejaas ^a   Schoonheim, Menno M ^a   Schouten, Daphne I ^a   Polman, Chris H ^a   Balk, Lisanne J ^a   Uitdehaag, Bernard M J ^a   Geurts, Jeroen J G ^a   Hillebrand, Arjan ^a   Barkhof, Frederik ^a   Stam, Cornelis J ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

FMRI; Functional connectivity; Functional networks; MEG; Multiple sclerosis; Thalamic atrophy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL FUNCTIONAL NETWORK; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISABILITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THALAMIC ATROPHY; THALAMO CORTICAL FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; ATROPHY; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; COHORT ANALYSIS; FOLLOW UP; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; NERVE TRACT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THALAMUS;

ADULT; ATROPHY; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ORGAN SIZE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; THALAMUS;

EID: 84922325236     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.22650     Document Type: Article

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