Cognitive consequences of thalamic, basal ganglia, and deep white matter lacunes in brain aging and dementia

Stroke

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1184-1188

  Gold, Gabriel ^a,d   Kövari, Enikö ^a   Herrmann, François R ^a   Canuto, Alessandra ^a   Hof, Patrick R ^c   Michel, Jean Pierre ^a   Bouras, Constantin ^a,c   Giannakopoulos, Panteleimon ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

^b University of Lausanne Medical Center   (Switzerland)

^c MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Aging; Brain injuries; Cognition; Dementia; Lacunar infarction; Vascular diseases

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYLOIDOSIS; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN INFARCTION SIZE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CLINICAL DEMENTIA RATING SCALE; COGNITION; CORTICAL MICROINFARCT; DEMENTIA; DEMYELINATION; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LACUNAR INFARCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROVASCULATURE; MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; THALAMUS; VASCULAR DISEASE; WHITE MATTER;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN; AUTOPSY; BASAL GANGLIA; BRAIN; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; COGNITION; COGNITION DISORDERS; DEMENTIA, MULTI-INFARCT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLES; THALAMUS;

EID: 20444407153     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.STR.0000166052.89772.b5     Document Type: Article

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