The association between California Verbal Learning Test performance and fibre impairment in multiple sclerosis: Evidence from diffusion tensor imaging

Multiple Sclerosis

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 332-341

  Fink, Frauke ^a,b   Eling, Paul ^c   Rischkau, Eva ^a   Beyer, Nicole ^a   Tomandl, Bernd ^a   Klein, Jan ^d   Hildebrandt, Helmut ^a,b  

^a KLINIKUM BREMEN OST   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d FRAUNHOFER MEVIS   (Germany)

Author keywords

California Verbal Learning Test; Diffusion tensor imaging; Limbic; Multiple sclerosis; Perpendicular diffusivity; Prefrontal

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN FORNIX; CALIFORNIA VERBAL LEARNING TEST; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; COGNITION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MYELINATION; NERVE TRACT; NEUROPATHY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; VERBAL MEMORY;

ADULT; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISABILITY EVALUATION; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS, RELAPSING-REMITTING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VERBAL LEARNING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77949897595     PISSN: 13524585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1352458509356367     Document Type: Article

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