Identifying the neural correlates of executive functions in early cerebral microangiopathy: A combined VBM and DTI study

Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1869-1878

  Quinque, Eva M ^a   Arélin, Katrin ^b,c   Dukart, Juergen ^c,d   Roggenhofer, Elisabeth ^a,b,c   Streitbuerger, Daniel P ^a   Villringer, Arno ^a,b,c   Frisch, Stefan ^a,e   Mueller, Karsten ^a   Schroeter, Matthias L ^a,b,c,f  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^d LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^e GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f German Consortium for Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration   (Germany)

Author keywords

cerebrovascular disease; diffusion tensor imaging; MRI; vascular cognitive impairment; white matter disease

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CEREBRAL MICROANGIOPATHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; MALE; MICROANGIOPATHY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

AGED; BRAIN; CEREBRAL SMALL VESSEL DISEASES; COGNITION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHIES; MALE; MICROVESSELS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 84867062024     PISSN: 0271678X     EISSN: 15597016     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/jcbfm.2012.96     Document Type: Article

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