The Role of the Cerebellum in Multiple Sclerosis

Cerebellum

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 364-374

  Weier, Katrin ^a,b   Banwell, Brenda ^c   Cerasa, Antonio ^d   Collins, D Louis ^a,e   Dogonowski, Anne Marie ^f   Lassmann, Hans ^g   Quattrone, Aldo ^h   Sahraian, Mohammad A ⁱ   Siebner, Hartwig R ^j   Sprenger, Till ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d CNR   (Italy)

^e MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f HVIDOVRE HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^g Medical University of Vienna   (Austria)

^h UNIVERSITY MAGNA GRAECIA OF CATANZARO   (Italy)

ⁱ TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^j BISPEBJERG HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

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Author keywords

Cerebellum; Cognition; Demyelination; Magnetic resonance imaging; Multiple sclerosis

Indexed keywords

PROTEOLIPID;

ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN FUNCTION; CELL ACTIVATION; CEREBELLUM; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEMYELINATION; DIFFUSION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; EXPANDED DISABILITY STATUS SCALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GRAY MATTER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROGLIA; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PURKINJE CELL; REMYELINIZATION; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; TOPOGRAPHY; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WHITE MATTER; WHITE MATTER LESION; WORKING MEMORY; COGNITION; DEMYELINATING DISEASE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

CEREBELLUM; COGNITION; DEMYELINATING DISEASES; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS;

EID: 84930004896     PISSN: 14734222     EISSN: 14734230     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12311-014-0634-8     Document Type: Article

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