Changes in mild cognitive impairment and its subtypes as seen on diffusion tensor imaging

International Psychogeriatrics

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1483-1489

  Thillainadesan, Senthil ^a   Wen, Wei ^a   Zhuang, Lin ^a   Crawford, John ^a   Kochan, Nicole ^a   Reppermund, Simone ^a   Slavin, Melissa ^a,b   Trollor, Julian ^a   Brodaty, Henry ^b,c   Sachdev, Perminder ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c PRINCE OF WALES HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

dementia; fractional anisotropy; mean diffusivity; MRI

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CAPSULA INTERNA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONA RADIATA (BRAIN); CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; FRONTAL GYRUS; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PUTAMEN; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; WHITE MATTER;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS;

EID: 84863974265     PISSN: 10416102     EISSN: 1741203X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1041610212000270     Document Type: Article

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