Loss of callosal fibre integrity in healthy elderly with age-related white matter changes

Journal of Neurology

Volumn 258, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1451-1459

  Griebe, Martin ^a   Förster, Alex ^a   Wessa, Michèle ^b   Rossmanith, Christina ^a   Bäzner, Hansjörg ^a   Sauer, Tamara ^a   Zohsel, Kathrin ^a   Blahak, Christian ^a   King, Andrea V ^b   Linke, Julia ^b   Hennerici, Michael G ^a   Gass, Achim ^a   Szabo, Kristina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Age related white matter changes; Ageing; Diffusion tensor imaging; Disconnection; White matter lesions

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE RELATED WHITE MATTER CHANGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CORPUS CALLOSUM ATROPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; GAIT; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MALE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; MONTREAL COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT; MORPHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; STATISTICS; WHITE MATTER;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANISOTROPY; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS;

EID: 79961021398     PISSN: 03405354     EISSN: 14321459     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00415-011-5956-6     Document Type: Article

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