Imaging the default mode network in aging and dementia

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Molecular Basis of Disease

Volumn 1822, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 431-441

  Hafkemeijer, Anne ^a,b   van der Grond, Jeroen ^a   Rombouts, Serge A R B ^a,b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aging; Deactivation; Default mode network; Dementia; FMRI; Functional connectivity

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E4;

AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYLOID PLAQUE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; DEFAULT MODE NETWORK; DEMENTIA; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; FOLLOW UP; FRONTAL CORTEX; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GRAY MATTER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS; INFERIOR TEMPORAL CORTEX; LEWY BODY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MENTAL TASK; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NEUROIMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL CORTEX; PRECUNEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SUPERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

AGING; BRAIN; DEMENTIA; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NERVE NET;

EID: 84856039660     PISSN: 09254439     EISSN: 1879260X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbadis.2011.07.008     Document Type: Review

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