Intel-hemispheric distribution of alzheimer disease and vascular pathology in brain aging

Stroke

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 983-986

  Giannakopoulos, Panteleimon ^a,b   Kövari, Enikö ^a,d   Herrmann, François R ^a   Hof, Patrick R ^c   Bouras, Constantin ^a  

^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

Alzheimer; Cerebral infarct; Cognition; White matter disease

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN;

AGED; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CLINICAL DEMENTIA RATING SCALE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WHITE MATTER; AUTOPSY; BASAL GANGLION; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DISEASE COURSE; LETTER; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; THALAMUS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN; AUTOPSY; BASAL GANGLIA; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; COGNITION DISORDERS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THALAMUS;

EID: 62449084994     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.108.530337     Document Type: Article

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