Morphological and glucose metabolism abnormalities in alcoholic Korsakoff's syndrome: Group comparisons and individual analyses

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2009, Pages

  Pitel, Anne Lise ^a,b   Aupée, Anne Marie ^a   Chételat, Gaël ^a   Mézenge, Florence ^a   Beaunieux, Hélène ^a   de la Sayette, Vincent ^a,c   Viader, Fausto ^a,c   Baron, Jean Claude ^d   Eustache, Francis ^a   Desranges, Béatrice ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE CAEN   (France)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CHU CÔTE DE NACRE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; GLUCOSE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; GLUCOSE TRANSPORT; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; KORSAKOFF PSYCHOSIS; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; WHITE MATTER; AGED; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE CONTROL STUDY; IMAGE PROCESSING; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY;

AGED; ALCOHOL AMNESTIC DISORDER; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; GLUCOSE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 70849111808     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007748     Document Type: Article

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