Structural and diffusion MRI measures of the hippocampus and memory performance

NeuroImage

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1782-1789

  Den Heijer, T ^a,b   der Lijn, F van ^a   Vernooij, M W ^a   de Groot, M ^a   Koudstaal, P J ^a   der Lugt, A van ^a   Krestin, G P ^a   Hofman, A ^a   Niessen, W J ^a,c   Breteler, M M B ^a,d  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b SINT FRANCISCUS GASTHUIS   (Netherlands)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^d GERMAN CENTER FOR NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES DZNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aging; Alzheimer's disease; Cognition; DTI; Hippocampus; Memory; MRI

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; APOLIPOPROTEIN E4; INSULIN; ORAL ANTIDIABETIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; GRAY MATTER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MEAN DIFFUSIVITY; MEMORY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NEUROIMAGING; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; WHITE MATTER;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; COHORT STUDIES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 84866858222     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.08.067     Document Type: Article

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