Relationship between white matter changes and cognition in healthy elders

International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1463-1469

  Ota, Miho ^a,b   Nemoto, Kiyotaka ^b   Sato, Noriko ^a   Yamashita, Fumio ^c   Asada, Takashi ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cognitive function; Magnetic resonance imaging; Mini mental state examination; White matter hyperintensity

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; RATING SCALE; WHITE MATTER;

AGED; AGING; ATTENTION; BRAIN; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 73249115076     PISSN: 08856230     EISSN: 10991166     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gps.2289     Document Type: Article

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