Mechanisms of Cognitive Impairment in Cerebral Small Vessel Disease: Multimodal MRI Results from the St George's Cognition and Neuroimaging in Stroke (SCANS) Study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Lawrence, Andrew J ^a   Patel, Bhavini ^a   Morris, Robin G ^b   MacKinnon, Andrew D ^c   Rich, Philip M ^c   Barrick, Thomas R ^a   Markus, Hugh S ^a  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN SIZE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMYELINATING DISEASE; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LACUNAR STROKE; LEUKOARAIOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; WHITE MATTER VOLUME; CEREBRAL SMALL VESSEL DISEASES; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COGNITION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CEREBRAL SMALL VESSEL DISEASES; COGNITION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROIMAGING; PHENOTYPE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STROKE;

EID: 84876441840     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0061014     Document Type: Article

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