Relationship Between Plasma Leptin Level and Brain Structure in Elderly: A Voxel-Based Morphometric Study

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 65, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 992-994

  Narita, Kosuke ^a,b   Kosaka, Hirotaka ^a   Okazawa, Hidehiko ^a   Murata, Tetsuhito ^a   Wada, Yuji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

^b GUNMA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cerebellum; elderly subjects; hippocampus; leptin; neuroprotectin; voxel based morphometry

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; LEPTIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CEREBELLUM; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROPROTECTION; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; JAPAN; LEPTIN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENTAL STATUS SCHEDULE; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 67349228783     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2008.10.006     Document Type: Article

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