Width of the third ventricle assessed by transcranial sonography can monitor brain atrophy in a time- and cost-effective manner - Results from a longitudinal study on 500 subjects

Psychiatry Research - Neuroimaging

Volumn 191, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 212-216

  Wollenweber, Frank Arne ^a,b   Schomburg, Robert ^a   Probst, Mareike ^a   Schneider, Vera ^a   Hiry, Teresa ^a   Ochsenfeld, Annika ^a   Mueller, Martin ^c   Dillmann, Ulrich ^a   Fassbender, Klaus ^a   Behnke, Stefanie ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c Kantonsspital of Luzern ^*  (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cognitive decline; Neuroimaging; Screening

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN SIZE; BRAIN THIRD VENTRICLE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROMONITORING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECALL; REPRODUCIBILITY; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; WORD LIST RECALL; WORD RECOGNITION;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATROPHY; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; THIRD VENTRICLE; TIME FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 79951855283     PISSN: 09254927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2010.09.010     Document Type: Article

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