Impact of chemotherapy for childhood leukemia on brain morphology and function.

OBJECTIVE: Using multidisciplinary treatment modalities the majority of children with cancer can be cured but we are increasingly faced with therapy-related toxicities. We studied brain morphology and neurocognitive functions in adolescent and young adult survivors of childhood acute, low and standa...

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Main Authors: Marina Genschaft, Thomas Huebner, Franziska Plessow, Vasiliki N Ikonomidou, Nasreddin Abolmaali, Franziska Krone, Andre Hoffmann, Elisabeth Holfeld, Peter Vorwerk, Christof Kramm, Bernd Gruhn, Elisabeth Koustenis, Pablo Hernaiz-Driever, Rakesh Mandal, Meinolf Suttorp, Thomas Hummel, Chrysanthy Ikonomidou, Clemens Kirschbaum, Michael N Smolka
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3827075?pdf=render