Huntington's Disease (HD): Neurodegeneration of Brodmann's Primary Visual Area 17 (BA17)

Brain Pathology

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 701-711

  Rüb, Udo ^a   Seidel, Kay ^a   Vonsattel, Jean Paul ^b   Lange, Herwig W ^c   Eisenmenger, Wolfgang ^d   Götz, Monika ^e   Del Turco, Domenico ^a   Bouzrou, Mohamed ^a   Korf, Horst Werner ^a   Heinsen, Helmut ^f  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Presbyterian Hospital and Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^e Aschaffenburg Hospital   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

area 17; cerebral cortex; Huntington's disease; polyglutamine diseases; visual system; visual evoked potentials (VEP)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; BRAIN SIZE; CELL LOSS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTEX LAYER IV; CORTEX LAYER VI; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; STRIATE CORTEX; CELL COUNT; GLIA; NERVE CELL; PATHOLOGY; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADULT; AGED; CELL COUNT; FEMALE; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROGLIA; NEURONS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 84946498712     PISSN: 10156305     EISSN: 17503639     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/bpa.12237     Document Type: Article

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