Volumetric brain changes in thalamus, corpus callosum and medial temporal structures: Mild alzheimer's disease compared with amnestic mild cognitive impairment

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders

Volumn 34, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 149-155

  Pedro, Tatiane ^a   Weiler, Marina ^a   Yasuda, Clarissa L ^a   D'Abreu, Anelyssa ^a   Damasceno, Benito P ^a   Cendes, Fernando ^a   Balthazar, Marcio L F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Amnestic mild cognitive impairment; Corpus callosum; Thalamus; Volumetry

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THALAMUS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMNESIA; ATROPHY; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAZIL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ORGAN SIZE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84866148130     PISSN: 14208008     EISSN: 14219824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000342118     Document Type: Article

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