The puzzle of predicting the impact of brain infarcts on cognitive impairment in the aging brain

Stroke

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 667-669

  Baune, Bernhard T ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Neuropsychology; Stroke management

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 6;

AGED; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN SIZE; CEREBELLUM; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EDITORIAL; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEMORY; MICROGLIA; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; STROKE; BRAIN; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; NEURITIS; NOTE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

AGING; BRAIN; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; COGNITION DISORDERS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; NEURITIS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 62449166265     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.108.534230     Document Type: Editorial

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