Altered brain network in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: A resting graph theory-based network study at voxel-wise level

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue MAY, 2016, Pages

  Zhou, Chaoyang ^a   Hu, Xiaofei ^a   Hu, Jun ^a   Liang, Minglong ^a   Yin, Xuntao ^a   Chen, Lin ^a   Zhang, Jiuquan ^a   Wang, Jian ^a  

^a THIRD MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; Degree centrality; Graph theory based network; Magnetic resonance imaging; Resting state

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; GRAPH THEORY BASED FUNCTIONAL NETWORK; HUMAN; MALE; MONTREAL COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT; NERVE CELL NETWORK; OCCIPITAL GYRUS; PRECUNEUS; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; SENSORY CORTEX; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

EID: 84973558699     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2016.00204     Document Type: Article

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