Schooling mediates brain reserve in Alzheimer's disease: Findings of fluoro-deoxy-glucose-positron emission tomography

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 77, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1060-1063

  Perneczky, R ^a   Drzezga, A ^a   Diehl Schmid, J ^a   Schmid, G ^a   Wohlschlager A ^a   Kars, S ^a   Grimmer, T ^a   Wagenpfeil, S ^b   Monsch, A ^c   Kurz, A ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; GLUCOSE; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; HUMAN; IMAGING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN; BRAIN LEVEL; CASE CONTROL STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HOSPITALIZATION; INTELLIGENCE; MENTAL HEALTH; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SCINTISCANNING; VASCULARIZATION;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; GLUCOSE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; MENTAL STATUS SCHEDULE; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 33747385700     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: 1468330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2006.094714     Document Type: Article

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