Abnormal integrity of long association fiber tracts is associated with cognitive deficits in patients with remitted geriatric depression: A cross-sectional, case-control study

Journal of Clinical Psychiatry

Volumn 71, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1386-1390

  Yuan, Yonggui ^a,b   Hou, Zhenghua ^b   Zhang, Zhijun ^a   Bai, Feng ^a   Yu, Hui ^a   You, Jiayong ^b   Shi, Yongmei ^a   Liu, Wen ^b   Jiang, Tianzi ^c  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION FIBER TRACT; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DEPRESSION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMITTED GERIATRIC DEPRESSION;

AGED; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COGNITION DISORDERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS;

EID: 78149289534     PISSN: 01606689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4088/JCP.09m05313gry     Document Type: Article

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