Strategic role of frontal white matter tracts in vascular cognitive impairment: A voxel-based lesion-symptom mapping study in CADASIL

Brain

Volumn 134, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2366-2375

  Duering, Marco ^a   Zieren, Nikola ^a   Hervé, Dominique ^b   Jouvent, Eric ^b   Reyes, Sonia ^b   Peters, Nils ^c   Pachai, Chahin ^d   Opherk, Christian ^a   Chabriat, Hugues ^b   Dichgans, Martin ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b ASSISTANCE PUBLIQUE HÔPITAUX DE PARIS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d BioClinica Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

CADASIL; lacunes; vascular cognitive impairment; voxel based lesion symptom mapping; white matter hyperintensities

Indexed keywords

NOTCH3 RECEPTOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN MAPPING; CADASIL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; THALAMUS; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CADASIL; COGNITION DISORDERS; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 80052013735     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awr169     Document Type: Article

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