Homocysteine effects on brain volumes mapped in 732 elderly individuals

NeuroReport

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 391-395

  Rajagopalan, Priya ^a   Hua, Xue ^a   Toga, Arthur W ^a   Jack Jr , Clifford R ^b   Weiner, Michael W ^c,d   Thompson, Paul M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d SAN FRANCISCO VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; atrophy; brain structure; folate; homocysteine; magnetic resonance imaging; vitamin B

Indexed keywords

HOMOCYSTEINE; VITAMIN B GROUP;

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELDERLY CARE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; HYPERHOMOCYSTEINEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; MORPHOMETRICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; WHITE MATTER;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION DISORDERS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HOMOCYSTEINE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE;

EID: 79955624743     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: 1473558X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e328346bf85     Document Type: Article

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