Sub-regional hippocampal injury is associated with fornix degeneration in Alzheimer's disease

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue APR, 2012, Pages

  Lee, Dong Young ^a,b   Fletcher, Evan ^a   Carmichael, Owen Thomas ^a   Singh, Baljeet ^a   Mungas, Dan ^a   Reed, Bruce ^a   Martinez, Oliver ^a   Buonocore, Michael H ^a   Persianinova, Maria ^a   DeCarli, Charles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Seoul National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Fornix; Fractional anisotropy; Hippocampus; Mild cognitive impairment

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN FORNIX; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN SIZE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPISODIC MEMORY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HIPPOCAMPAL SUBFIELD ATROPHY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; IN VIVO STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NERVE FIBER DEGENERATION; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RISK FACTOR; SEMANTIC MEMORY;

EID: 84862544484     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16634365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2012.00001     Document Type: Article

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