Mapping the alzheimer's brain with connectomics

Frontiers in Psychiatry

Volumn 2, Issue JAN, 2012, Pages

  Xie, Teng ^a   He, Yong ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Connectome; Cortical thickness; DTI; EEG MEG; FMRI; Genetics; Graph theory; Small world

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E4;

ALPHA RHYTHM; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; APOE 4 GENE; BETA RHYTHM; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; CONNECTOME; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; GENE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RISK; GENETICS; GRAPH THEORY; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MORPHOMETRICS; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REVIEW; STRUCTURAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; THEORY; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84864144762     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16640640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2011.00077     Document Type: Review

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