Brain regional lesion burden and impaired mobility in the elderly

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 646-654

  Moscufo, Nicola ^a,c   Guttmann, Charles R G ^a,b   Meier, Dominik ^a   Csapo, Istvan ^a   Hildenbrand, Peter G ^a,d   Healy, Brian C ^b   Schmidt, Julia A ^c   Wolfson, Leslie ^c  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^d LAHEY HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Brain; Corona radiata; Magnetic resonance imaging; Mobility; Splenium of corpus callosum; White matter; White matter hyperintensity

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; CAPSULA INTERNA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONA RADIATA (BRAIN); CORPUS CALLOSUM; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERHEMISPHERIC TRANSFER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE TRACT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SUPERIOR LONGITUDINAL BUNDLE; WALKING DIFFICULTY; WALKING SPEED; WHITE MATTER;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BRAIN; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LOGISTIC MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WALKING;

EID: 79953056075     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2009.04.010     Document Type: Article

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