Cortex
Volume 44, Issue 8 , Pages 1037-1066 , September 2008

Disconnection syndromes of basal ganglia, thalamus, and cerebrocerebellar systems

  • Jeremy D. Schmahmann

      Affiliations

    • Ataxia Unit, Cognitive/Behavioral Neurology Unit, Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Suite 340, Charles River Plaza South, 55 Fruit Street, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
    • ,
  • Deepak N. Pandya

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA

Received 24 January 2008 ,Revised 13 April 2008 ,Accepted 14 April 2008.

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