Microstructural white matter abnormalities independent of white matter lesion burden in amnestic mild cognitive impairment and early Alzheimer disease among Han Chinese elderly

Alzheimer Disease and Associated Disorders

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 317-324

  Liao, Jing ^a   Zhu, Yue ^b,c   Zhang, Meiyan ^b,c   Yuan, Huishu ^a   Su, Min Ying ^d   Yu, Xin ^b,c   Wang, Huali ^b,c  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY SIXTH HOSPITAL   (China)

^c BEIJING HOSPITAL   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Diffusion tensor imaging; Mild cognitive impairment; Parietal lobe

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMNESTIC MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN REGION; CANONICAL ANALYSIS; CHINESE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; MALE; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; PARIETAL LOBE; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL LOBE; WHITE MATTER; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHINA; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATHOLOGY;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHINA; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS;

EID: 78651396348     PISSN: 08930341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WAD.0b013e3181df1c7b     Document Type: Article

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