Cortex
Volume 44, Issue 8 , Pages 1097-1103 , September 2008

Visualization of disconnection syndromes in humans

  • Michel Thiebaut de Schotten

      Affiliations

    • INSERM UMR_S 610, Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, Paris, France
    • UPMC Univ Paris 06, Paris, France
    • IFR70, Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, Paris, France
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Inserm U610, G.H. Pitié Salpêtrière, 47 boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75013 Paris, France.
    • ,
  • Serge Kinkingnéhun

      Affiliations

    • INSERM UMR_S 610, Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, Paris, France
    • IFR49, SHFJ, Orsay, France
    • ,
  • Christine Delmaire

      Affiliations

    • UPMC Univ Paris 06, Paris, France
    • Department of Neuroradiology, AP-HP, Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, Paris, France
    • IFR49, SHFJ, Orsay, France
    • ,
  • Stéphane Lehéricy

      Affiliations

    • INSERM UMR_S 610, Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, Paris, France
    • Department of Neuroradiology, AP-HP, Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, Paris, France
    • IFR49, SHFJ, Orsay, France
    • ,
  • Hugues Duffau

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurosurgery, Hôpital Gui de Chauliac, CHU Montpellier, Montpellier, France
    • IFR49, SHFJ, Orsay, France
    • ,
  • Lionel Thivard

      Affiliations

    • UPMC Univ Paris 06, Paris, France
    • Department of Neurology, AP-HP, Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, Paris, France
    • ,
  • Emmanuelle Volle

      Affiliations

    • INSERM UMR_S 610, Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, Paris, France
    • UPMC Univ Paris 06, Paris, France
    • Department of Neuroradiology, AP-HP, Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, Paris, France
    • IFR70, Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, Paris, France
    • ,
  • Richard Levy

      Affiliations

    • INSERM UMR_S 610, Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, Paris, France
    • UPMC Univ Paris 06, Paris, France
    • Department of Neurology, AP-HP, Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, Paris, France
    • IFR70, Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, Paris, France
    • ,
  • Bruno Dubois

      Affiliations

    • INSERM UMR_S 610, Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, Paris, France
    • UPMC Univ Paris 06, Paris, France
    • Department of Neurology, AP-HP, Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, Paris, France
    • IFR70, Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, Paris, France
    • ,
  • Paolo Bartolomeo

      Affiliations

    • INSERM UMR_S 610, Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, Paris, France
    • UPMC Univ Paris 06, Paris, France
    • Department of Neurology, AP-HP, Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, Paris, France
    • IFR70, Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, Paris, France
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Inserm U610, G.H. Pitié Salpêtrière, 47 boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75013 Paris, France.

Received 6 July 2007 ,Revised 6 February 2008 ,Accepted 14 February 2008.

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doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2008.02.003

Cortex
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