Interaction between aging and neurodegeneration in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 886-898

  Tedeschi, Gioacchino ^a,b,c   Trojsi, Francesca ^a,b   Tessitore, Alessandro ^a,b,c   Corbo, Daniele ^a,b,c   Sagnelli, Anna ^a   Paccone, Antonella ^b,c   D'Ambrosio, Alessandro ^a   Piccirillo, Giovanni ^a   Cirillo, Mario ^a,c   Cirillo, Sossio ^a,c   Monsurrò, Maria Rosaria ^a,b   Esposito, Fabrizio ^d,e  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^b Neurological Institute for Diagnosis and Care Hermitage Capodimonte   (Italy)

^c Italian Foundation for Multiple Sclerosis (FISM)   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^e MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS); Default mode network (DMN); Independent component analysis (ICA); Resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging (RS fMRI); Sensori motor network (SMN)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTOPARIETAL NETWORK; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GRAY MATTER; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INFERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; MALE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROIMAGING; PARIETAL CORTEX; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SUPERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; SUPRAMARGINAL GYRUS; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE DEGENERATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84858339275     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: 15581497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2010.07.011     Document Type: Article

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