Damage to the cingulum contributes to alzheimer's disease pathophysiology by deafferentation mechanism

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1295-1308

  Bozzali, Marco ^a   Giulietti, Giovanni ^a   Basile, Barbara ^a   Serra, Laura ^a   Spanò, Barbara ^a,b   Perri, Roberta ^a   Giubilei, Franco ^c   Marra, Camillo ^d   Caltagirone, Carlo ^a,e   Cercignani, Mara ^a  

^a IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^b IRCCS CENTRO NEUROLESI BONINO PULEJO   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^d CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

AD; Cingulum; Deafferentation; DT MRI; MCI; Tractography; VBM

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMNESIA; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; CINGULATE GYRUS; CINGULUM DAMAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEAFFERENTATION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISEASE COURSE; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POST HOC ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WHITE MATTER INJURY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ATROPHY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NERVE FIBERS, UNMYELINATED;

EID: 84860281256     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.21287     Document Type: Article

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