Cognition in Friedreich's ataxia: a behavioral and multimodal imaging study

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 572-587

  Dogan, Imis ^a,b   Tinnemann, Eugenie ^a   Romanzetti, Sandro ^a,b   Mirzazade, Shahram ^a,b   Costa, Ana S ^a,b,c   Werner, Cornelius J ^a,b   Heim, Stefan ^b,d,e   Fedosov, Kathrin ^a   Schulz, Stefanie ^a   Timmann, Dagmar ^f   Giordano, Ilaria A ^g,h   Klockgether, Thomas ^g,h   Schulz, Jörg B ^a,b,d   Reetz, Kathrin ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^b JARA TRANSLATIONAL BRAIN MEDICINE   (Germany)

^c HOSPITAL DE BRAGA   (Portugal)

^d FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^e RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

^h GERMAN CENTER FOR NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES DZNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR INSULA; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN STEM; CALIFORNIA VERBAL LEARNING TEST; CEREBELLUM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRIEDREICH ATAXIA; GRAY MATTER; HOSPITAL ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION SCALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE ASSESSMENT; MOTOR CORTEX; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; MULTIPLE CHOICE VOCABULARY TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PACED AUDITORY SERIAL ADDITION TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINOCEREBELLAR ATAXIA FUNCTIONAL INDEX; VERBAL MEMORY TEST; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WECHSLER MEMORY SCALE; WHITE MATTER; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 85022128459     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23289503     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acn3.315     Document Type: Article

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