Decreased white matter integrity before the onset of delusions in patients with Alzheimer's disease: Diffusion tensor imaging

Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 25-29

  Nakaaki, Shutaro ^a   Sato, Junko ^b   Torii, Katsuyoshi ^b   Oka, Mizuki ^a   Negi, Atsushi ^b   Nakamae, Takashi ^c   Narumoto, Jin ^c   Miyata, Jun ^d   Furukawa, Toshi A ^e   Mimura, Masaru ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e KYOTO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Delusions; DTI; Tract based spatial statistics; White matter

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CORONA RADIATA (BRAIN); CORPUS CALLOSUM; DELUSION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIAL LONGITUDINAL BUNDLE; MEDIAL LONGITUDINAL FASCICULUS; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; WHITE MATTER INJURY;

EID: 84872066690     PISSN: 11766328     EISSN: 11782021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/NDT.S38942     Document Type: Article

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