Executive dysfunction and left frontal white matter hyperintensities are correlated with neuropsychiatric symptoms in stroke patients with confluent white matter hyperintensities

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 254-260

  Mok, Vincent C T ^a   Wong, Adrian ^a   Wong, Kelvin ^b   Chu, Winnie C W ^a   Xiong, Yunyun ^a   Chan, Anne Y Y ^a   Kwok, Timothy C Y ^a   Hu, Xintao ^b   Lee, W K ^a   Tang, Wai Kwong ^a   Wong, Ka Sing Lawrence ^a   Wong, Stephen ^b  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Depression; Executive function; Frontal lobe atrophy; Neuropsychiatry; Stroke; White matter hyperintensities

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGGRESSION; AGITATION; ANXIETY DISORDER; APATHY; APPETITE DISORDER; ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; CONFLUENT WHITE MATTER HYPERINTENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELUSION; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EATING DISORDER; EUPHORIA; FEMALE; HALLUCINATION; HUMAN; IRRITABILITY; LEFT FRONTAL WHITE MATTER HYPERINTENSITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE PATIENT; WHITE MATTER;

AGED; ATROPHY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; COGNITION DISORDERS; DEPRESSION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHIES; LOGISTIC MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; STROKE;

EID: 77956563432     PISSN: 14208008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000318744     Document Type: Article

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