White matter integrity of the cerebellar peduncles as a mediator of effects of prenatal alcohol exposure on eyeblink conditioning

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 2470-2482

  Fan, Jia ^a,b   Meintjes, Ernesta M ^a,b   Molteno, Christopher D ^b   Spottiswoode, Bruce S ^c   Dodge, Neil C ^d   Alhamud, Alkathafi A ^a,b   Stanton, Mark E ^e   Peterson, Bradley S ^f   Jacobson, Joseph L ^b,d   Jacobson, Sandra W ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

^d WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebellar peduncles; Diffusion tensor imaging; Eyeblink conditioning; Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders; White matter

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN STEM; CEREBELLAR PEDUNCLE; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONDITIONING; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EYEBLINK CONDITIONING; EYELID REFLEX; FEMALE; FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYELINATED NERVE; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL STATUS; SUPERIOR CEREBELLAR PEDUNCLE; WHITE MATTER; CEREBRAL PEDUNCLE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MIDDLE CEREBELLAR PEDUNCLE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

CEREBRAL PEDUNCLE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONDITIONING, EYELID; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FETAL ALCOHOL SPECTRUM DISORDERS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MIDDLE CEREBELLAR PEDUNCLE; PREGNANCY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84931864326     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.22785     Document Type: Article

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