Sequential relationships between grey matter and white matter atrophy and brain metabolic abnormalities in early Alzheimer's disease

Brain

Volumn 133, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 3301-3314

  Villain, Nicolas ^a   Fouquet, Marine ^a   Baron, Jean Claude ^c   Mézenge, Florence ^a   Landeau, Brigitte ^a   De La Sayette, Vincent ^a,b   Viader, Fausto ^a,b   Eustache, Francis ^a   Desgranges, Béatrice ^a   Chételat, Gaël ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE CAEN   (France)

^b CAEN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; hippocampus; magnetic resonance imaging functional magnetic resonance imaging; positron emission tomography imaging; white matter

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN METABOLISM; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 78049472063     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awq203     Document Type: Article

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