APOE associated hemispheric asymmetry of entorhinal cortical thickness in aging and Alzheimer's disease

Psychiatry Research - Neuroimaging

Volumn 214, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 212-220

  Donix, Markus ^a,b   Burggren, Alison C ^c   Scharf, Maria ^a,b   Marschner, Kira ^a,b   Suthana, Nanthia A ^c,d   Siddarth, Prabha ^c   Krupa, Allison K ^c   Jones, Michael ^c   Martin Harris, Laurel ^c   Ercoli, Linda M ^c   Miller, Karen J ^c   Werner, Annett ^a   von Kummer, Rüdiger ^a   Sauer, Cathrin ^a   Small, Gary W ^c,e   Holthoff, Vjera A ^a,b   Bookheimer, Susan Y ^c,d  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b GERMAN CENTER FOR NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES DZNE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UCLA Longevity Center   (United States)

Author keywords

APOE 4 allele; Cortical unfolding; Entorhinal cortex; Hippocampus; Magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALLELE; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; APOLIPOPROTEIN E4 GENE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; GENE; GENOTYPE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE;

APOE-4 ALLELE; CORTICAL UNFOLDING; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

AGED; AGING; ALLELES; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; APOLIPOPROTEIN E4; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HEALTH; HETEROZYGOTE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 84888301205     PISSN: 09254927     EISSN: 18727506     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2013.09.006     Document Type: Article

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