Dementia: Vascular and neurodegenerative pathways - Will they meet?

Nature Reviews Neurology

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 487-488

  Kalaria, Raj N ^a   Ihara, Masafumi ^b  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE; MYELIN; TAU PROTEIN;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN METABOLISM; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; COGNITION; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DEMYELINATION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISEASE COURSE; FRONTAL LOBE; GRAY MATTER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPERTENSION; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA; NERVE FIBER DEGENERATION; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; RISK FACTOR; TEMPORAL LOBE; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WHITE MATTER;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN INJURIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHIES; MALE;

EID: 84883741074     PISSN: 17594758     EISSN: 17594766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrneurol.2013.164     Document Type: Article

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