DTI and VBM reveal white matter changes without associated gray matter changes in patients with idiopathic restless legs syndrome

Brain and Behavior

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2015, Pages

  Belke, Marcus ^a   Heverhagen, Johannes T ^a   Keil, Boris ^a   Rosenow, Felix ^a,b   Oertel, Wolfgang H ^a   Stiasny Kolster, Karin ^a,c   Knake, Susanne ^a   Menzler, Katja ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor imaging; Gray matter changes; Restless legs syndrome; Voxel based morphometry; White matter changes

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONLINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WHITE MATTER; CASE CONTROL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROIMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROIMAGING; RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84941942329     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21623279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/brb3.327     Document Type: Article

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