The Ansa Subthalamica: A Neglected Fiber Tract

Eduardo Joaquim Lopes Alho^{1

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3}, Ana Tereza Di Lorenzo Alho⁴, Andreas Horn⁵, Maria da Graça M Martin⁴, Brian L Edlow⁶, Bruce Fischl^{6

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8}, József Nagy⁹, Erich T Fonoff¹, Clement Hamani¹⁰, Helmut Heinsen^{2

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Neurology, Hospital das Clinicas HCFMUSP, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
² Morphological Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychiatry, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany.
³ Hospital Beneficência Portuguesa de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
⁴ Department of Radiology, Hospital das Clinicas HCFMUSP, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
⁵ Department of Neurology, Neuromodulation and Movement Disorders Unit, Charité-University Medicine (CCM), Berlin, Germany.
⁶ Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachussets, USA.
⁷ Department of Radiology, Mass. General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
⁸ EECS/HST MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
⁹ Eulerian-solutions e.U., Linz, Austria.
¹⁰ Division of Neurosurgery Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center, Harquail Centre for Neuromodulation, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Review

Eduardo Joaquim Lopes Alho et al. Mov Disord. 2020 Jan.

. 2020 Jan;35(1):75-80.

doi: 10.1002/mds.27901. Epub 2019 Nov 23.

¹ Department of Neurology, Hospital das Clinicas HCFMUSP, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
² Morphological Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychiatry, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany.
³ Hospital Beneficência Portuguesa de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
⁴ Department of Radiology, Hospital das Clinicas HCFMUSP, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
⁵ Department of Neurology, Neuromodulation and Movement Disorders Unit, Charité-University Medicine (CCM), Berlin, Germany.
⁶ Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachussets, USA.
⁷ Department of Radiology, Mass. General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
⁸ EECS/HST MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
⁹ Eulerian-solutions e.U., Linz, Austria.
¹⁰ Division of Neurosurgery Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center, Harquail Centre for Neuromodulation, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

No abstract available

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