What does the corpus callosum tell us about brain changes in the elderly?

Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1557-1560

  Di Paola, Margherita ^a,b   Caltagirone, Carlo ^a,c   Spalletta, Gianfranco ^a  

^a IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

age related white matter changes; corpus callosum; demyelination process; diffusion tensor imaging; elderly; region of interest; Wallerian degeneration

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CORPUS CALLOSUM ATROPHY; DEMENTIA; HUMAN; LEUKOARAIOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 80054945461     PISSN: 14737175     EISSN: 17448360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/ern.11.130     Document Type: Article

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