1. Enlargement of Thalamic Nuclei in Tourette Syndrome.
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Miller, Ann M., Bansal, Ravi, Hao, Xuejun, Sanchez-Pena, Juan Pablo, Sobel, Loren J., Liu, Jun, Xu, Dongrong, Zhu, Hongtu, Chakravarty, M. Mallar, Durkin, Kathleen, Ivanov, Lliyan, Plessen, Kerstin J., Kellendonk, Christoph B., and Peterson, Bradley S.
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THALAMUS ,TOURETTE syndrome ,MAGNETIC resonance imaging - Abstract
The article discusses a cross-sectional case control study which analyzed the morphological characteristics of the thalamus in children and adults with Tourette syndrome (TS). Patients with TS at the Yale Child Study Center in New Haven, Connecticut were studied using anatomical magnetic resonance imaging. Results showed that TS results in the enlargement of the thalami.
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- 2010
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