Cortical thickness and voxel-based morphometry in posterior cortical atrophy and typical Alzheimer's disease

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1466-1476

  Lehmann, Manja ^a   Crutch, Sebastian J ^a   Ridgway, Gerard R ^a   Ridha, Basil H ^a   Barnes, Josephine ^a   Warrington, Elizabeth K ^a   Rossor, Martin N ^a   Fox, Nick C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Cortical thickness; Magnetic resonance imaging; Posterior cortical atrophy; Voxel based morphometry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX ATROPHY; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL THICKNESS; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MEMORY DISORDER; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PERCEPTION DISORDER; POSTERIOR CORTICAL ATROPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL LOBE; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ATROPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79959577308     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: 15581497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2009.08.017     Document Type: Article

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