Relationship between atrophy of the medial temporal areas and cognitive functions in elderly adults with mild cognitive impairment

European Neurology

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 168-177

  Shimada, Hiroyuki ^a   Kato, Takashi ^b   Ito, Kengo ^b   Makizako, Hyuma ^a   Doi, Takehiko ^a   Yoshida, Daisuke ^a   Shimokata, Hiroshi ^c   Washimi, Yukihiko ^a   Endo, Hidetoshi ^a   Suzuki, Takao ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR GERIATRICS AND GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

^b Department of Clinical and Experimental Neuroimaging ^*  (Japan)

^c Center for Development of Advanced Medicine for Dementia   (Japan)

Author keywords

Entorhinal cortex; Stroop test; Voxel based morphometry; VSRAD; Wechsler Memory Scale

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; COGNITION; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIAL TEMPORAL AREA; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REY COMPLEX FIGURE RETENTION TEST; STROOP COLOR AND WORD TEST INTERFERENCE LIST; TEMPORAL LOBE; WECHSLER MEMORY SCALE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATROPHY; COGNITION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 84862817266     PISSN: 00143022     EISSN: 14219913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000334845     Document Type: Article

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