Corticospinal tract integrity is related to primary motor cortex thinning in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis

Multiple Sclerosis

Volumn 21, Issue 14, 2015, Pages 1771-1780

  Bergsland, Niels ^a,b,c   Laganà, Maria Marcella ^a   Tavazzi, Eleonora ^a   Caffini, Matteo ^c   Tortorella, Paola ^a   Baglio, Francesca ^a   Baselli, Giuseppe ^c   Rovaris, Marco ^a  

^a IRCCS FONDAZIONE DON CARLO GNOCCHI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

brain atrophy; cortical atrophy; corticospinal tract; diffusion tensor imaging; MRI; Multiple sclerosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE DURATION; EXPANDED DISABILITY STATUS SCALE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PYRAMIDAL SIGN; WHITE MATTER INJURY; ATROPHY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; PATHOLOGY; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; WHITE MATTER; BRAIN CORTEX ATROPHY; CORTICAL THICKNESS (BRAIN); FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; MORPHOLOGY; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIMARY AUDITORY CORTEX; PROBABILITY;

ADULT; ATROPHY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS, RELAPSING-REMITTING; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84948142715     PISSN: 13524585     EISSN: 14770970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1352458515576985     Document Type: Article

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