Impact of Alzheimer's disease on the functional connectivity of spontaneous brain activity

Current Alzheimer Research

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 541-553

  Sorg, Christian ^a   Riedl, Valentin ^a   Perneczky, Robert ^a   Kurz, Alexander ^a   Wohlschläger, Afra M ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; fMRI; Functional connectivity; Local integration; Resting state; Resting state networks; Small world; Spontaneous brain activity

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BLOOD OXYGENATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CELL COMMUNICATION; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROIMAGING; OSCILLATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TEMPORAL LOBE; THEORETICAL MODEL; BRAIN; IMAGE PROCESSING; NERVE TRACT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 73949095474     PISSN: 15672050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/156720509790147106     Document Type: Review

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