Structural and functional brain changes beyond visual system in patients with advanced glaucoma.

Structural and functional brain changes beyond visual system in patients with advanced glaucoma.

In order to test the hypothesis that in primary open angle glaucoma (POAG), an important cause of irreversible blindness, a spreading of neurodegeneration occurs through the brain, we performed multimodal MRI and subsequent whole-brain explorative voxelwise analyses in 13 advanced POAG patients and...

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Main Authors: Paolo Frezzotti, Antonio Giorgio, Ilaria Motolese, Alessandro De Leucio, Michele Iester, Eduardo Motolese, Antonio Federico, Nicola De Stefano
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4146554?pdf=render

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