Callosal degeneration topographically correlated with cognitive function in amnestic mild cognitive impairment and alzheimer's disease dementia

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1529-1543

  Wang, Pei Ning ^a,b   Chou, Kun Hsien ^a   Chang, Ni Jung ^a   Lin, Ker Neng ^a,c   Chen, Wei Ta ^a,b   Lan, Gong Yau ^d   Lin, Ching Po ^a   Lirng, Jiing Feng ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d CHENG HSIN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Brodmann area; Corpus callosum; Diffusion tensor imaging; Neuroimaging; Probabilistic tractography

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; AXIAL DIFFUSIVITY; CALLOSAL DEGENERATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DEGENERATION; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; MALE; MEAN DIFFUSIVITY; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL DIFFUSIVITY; TRACTOGRAPHY; AMNESIA; ANISOTROPY; ATROPHY; BRAIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPLICATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; NERVE DEGENERATION; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMNESIA; ANISOTROPY; ATROPHY; BRAIN; COGNITION; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ORGAN SIZE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES;

EID: 84896395608     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.22271     Document Type: Article

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