Journal of the Neurological Sciences
Volume 290, Issue 1 , Pages 48-51 , 15 March 2010

Facial emotion recognition and cerebral white matter lesions in myotonic dystrophy type 1

  • Mutsutaka Kobayakawa

      Affiliations

    • Brain Science Institute, Tamagawa University, Tokyo, Japan
    • Department of Neurology, Showa University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
    • ,
  • Natsuko Tsuruya

      Affiliations

    • Brain Science Institute, Tamagawa University, Tokyo, Japan
    • Department of Neurology, Showa University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
    • ,
  • Akitoshi Takeda

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, Showa University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
    • ,
  • Atsunobu Suzuki

      Affiliations

    • Program of Gerontological Research Organization for Interdisciplinary Research, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
    • Beckman Institute, University of Illinois, Urbana, USA
    • Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan
    • ,
  • Mitsuru Kawamura

      Affiliations

    • Brain Science Institute, Tamagawa University, Tokyo, Japan
    • Department of Neurology, Showa University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
    • Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST), Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Saitama, Japan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Neurology, Showa University School of Medicine, 1-5-8 Hatanodai, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 142-8666, Japan. Tel./fax: +81 3 3784 8710.

Received 2 September 2009 ,Accepted 23 November 2009.

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PII: S0022-510X(09)00974-5

doi: 10.1016/j.jns.2009.11.011

Journal of the Neurological Sciences
Volume 290, Issue 1 , Pages 48-51 , 15 March 2010

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