Diminished performance on neuropsychological testing in late life depression is correlated with microstructural white matter abnormalities

NeuroImage

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 2182-2190

  Mettenburg, Joseph M ^a   Benzinger, Tammie L ^a   Shimony, Joshua S ^a   Snyder, Abraham Z ^b   Sheline, Yvette I ^a,b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Diffusion tensor imaging; Radial diffusivity; Tract based spatial statistics

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY OF THE CORPUS CALLOSUM; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CINGULATE BUNDLE; CINGULATE WHITE MATTER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DEPRESSION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EPISODIC MEMORY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; GENDER; GENU OF THE CORPUS CALLOSUM; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LATE LIFE DEPRESSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRECUNEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESSING SPEED; REMISSION; RETROSPINIAL WHITE MATTER; RISK FACTOR; SPLENIUM OF THE CORPUS CALLOSUM; SUBCORTICAL WHITE MATTER; UNCINATE WHITE MATTER; WHITE MATTER; WORKING MEMORY;

AGE OF ONSET; AGED; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; DEPRESSION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS;

EID: 84858727562     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.02.044     Document Type: Article

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