Full diffusion characterization implicates regionally disparate neuropathology in Mild Cognitive Impairment

Brain Structure and Function

Volumn 219, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 367-379

  Boespflug, Erin L ^a   Storrs, Judd ^a   Sadat Hossieny, Sara ^a   Eliassen, James ^a   Shidler, Marcelle ^a   Norris, Matthew ^a   Krikorian, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI ACADEMIC HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Associative learning; Diffusion tensor imaging; Fornix; Mild Cognitive Impairment; Radial diffusivity

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; AXIAL DIFFUSIVITY; BRAIN FORNIX; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; MALE; MEAN DIFFUSIVITY; MEMORY DISORDER; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PAIRED ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL DIFFUSIVITY; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; WHITE MATTER;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES;

EID: 84892368837     PISSN: 18632653     EISSN: 18632661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00429-013-0506-x     Document Type: Article

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