Posterior cingulum white matter disruption and its associations with verbal memory and stroke risk in mild cognitive impairment

Journal of Alzheimer's Disease

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 589-603

  Delano Wood, Lisa ^a,c   Stricker, Nikki H ^d,e   Sorg, Scott F ^a   Nation, Daniel A ^a   Jak, Amy J ^a,c   Woods, Steven P ^a   Libon, David J ^f   Delis, Dean C ^a,c   Frank, Lawrence R ^b,d   Bondi, Mark W ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c VA SAN DIEGO HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^d VA BOSTON HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^e BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; diffusion tensor imaging; memory; mild cognitive impairment; posterior cingulum; white matter

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEGENERATION; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CAPSULA INTERNA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MALE; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NEOCORTEX; NEUROIMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; STROKE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VERBAL MEMORY; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84859394380     PISSN: 13872877     EISSN: 18758908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/JAD-2012-102103     Document Type: Article

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