Apathy and White Matter Integrity in Alzheimer's Disease: A Whole Brain Analysis with Tract-Based Spatial Statistics

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Hahn, Changtae ^a   Lim, Hyun Kook ^b   Won, Wang Yeon ^a   Ahn, Kook Jin ^a   Jung, Won Sang ^b   Lee, Chang Uk ^a  

^a The Catholic University of Korea   (South Korea)

^b The Catholic University of Korea   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; APATHY; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SUPERIOR LONGITUDINAL BUNDLE; UNCINATE FASCICULUS; WHITE MATTER;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANISOTROPY; APATHY; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84871908328     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0053493     Document Type: Article

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