Callosal tissue loss parallels subtle decline in psychomotor speed. A longitudinal quantitative MRI study. The LADIS Study

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1650-1655

  Jokinen, Hanna ^a,b   Frederiksen, Kristian S ^c   Garde, Ellen ^c   Skimminge, Arnold ^c   Siebner, Hartwig ^c   Waldemar, Gunhild ^c   Ylikoski, Raija ^a   Madureira, Sofia ^d   Verdelho, Ana ^d   van Straaten, Elizabeth C W ^e   Barkhof, Frederik ^e   Fazekas, Franz ^f   Schmidt, Reinhold ^f   Pantoni, Leonardo ^g   Inzitari, Domenico ^g   Erkinjuntti, Timo ^a  

^a HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c Mental Health Center Glostrup   (Denmark)

^d Centro de Estudos Egas Moniz   (Portugal)

^e VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^f MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^g UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Brain atrophy; Cognition; Corpus callosum; Vascular cognitive impairment; White matter lesions

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN CORTEX; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERHEMISPHERIC TRANSFER; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY; MOTOR CONTROL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PSYCHOMOTOR ACTIVITY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; WHITE MATTER LESION;

AGED; ATROPHY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOARAIOSIS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTOR SKILLS DISORDERS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84861223234     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.03.020     Document Type: Article

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