White matter damage is associated with memory decline in chronic alcoholics: A quantitative diffusion tensor tractography study

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 250, Issue , 2013, Pages 192-198

  Trivedi, Richa ^a   Bagga, Deepika ^a   Bhattacharya, Debajyoti ^b   Kaur, Prabhjot ^a   Kumar, Pawan ^a   Khushu, Subash ^a   Tripathi, Rajendra Prashad ^a   Singh, Namita ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR MEDICINE AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (India)

^b BASE HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor tractography; Fractional anisotropy; Memory dysfunction score

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL ABSTINENCE; ALCOHOLISM; ANTERIOR THALAMIC RADIATION; ARCUATE FASCICULUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; BRAIN REGION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FORNIX; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; INFERIOR LONGITUDINAL BUNDLE; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MEMORY DYSFUNCTION SCORE; MEMORY TEST; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; REWARD; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SCORING SYSTEM; THALAMUS; UNCINATE FASCICULUS; WHITE MATTER INJURY;

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84878738332     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2013.05.001     Document Type: Article

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