Contralateral cerebello-thalamo-cortical pathways with prominent involvement of associative areas in humans in vivo

Brain Structure and Function

Volumn 220, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 3369-3384

  Palesi, Fulvia ^a,b   Tournier, Jacques Donald ^c,d   Calamante, Fernando ^c,d   Muhlert, Nils ^e,f   Castellazzi, Gloria ^a,b   Chard, Declan ^e,g   D’Angelo, Egidio ^a,b   Wheeler Kingshott, Claudia A M ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b C MONDINO NATIONAL NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^c FLOREY INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cerebellum; Cerebral cortex; Diffusion MRI; MRI tractography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; CEREBELLUM CORTEX; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTRALATERAL CEREBELLO THALAMO CORTICAL PATHWAY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; INVESTIGATIVE PROCEDURES; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERIOR CEREBELLAR PEDUNCLE; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS; TRACTOGRAPHY; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBELLUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE TRACT; PROCEDURES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBELLUM; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL PATHWAYS; VENTRAL THALAMIC NUCLEI; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84942371111     PISSN: 18632653     EISSN: 18632661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00429-014-0861-2     Document Type: Article

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