Differential Vulnerability of Anterior White Matter in Nondemented Aging with Minimal Acceleration in Dementia of the Alzheimer Type: Evidence from Diffusion Tensor Imaging

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 410-423

  Head, Denise ^a   Buckner, R L ^a   Shimony, J S ^a   Williams, L E ^a   Akbudak, E ^a   Conturo, T E ^a   McAvoy, M ^a   Morris, J C ^a   Snyder, A Z ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Cognitive control; DTI; MCI; MRI; Prefrontal

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DEMENTIA; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL LOBE; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 1942453876     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhh003     Document Type: Article

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