Increased body mass index is associated with a global and distributed decrease in white matter microstructural integrity

Psychosomatic Medicine

Volumn 74, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 682-690

  Verstynen, Timothy D ^a   Weinstein, Andrea M ^b   Schneider, Walter W ^a,b   Jakicic, John M ^a   Rofey, Dana L ^a   Erickson, Kirk I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

body mass index; DTI; fractional anisotropy; obesity; white matter

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN STEM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84866316635     PISSN: 00333174     EISSN: 15347796     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PSY.0b013e318261909c     Document Type: Article

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