Impact of regional white matter lesions on cognitive function in subcortical vascular cognitive impairment

Neurological Research

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 434-443

  Ai, Qing ^a   Pu, Yue Hua ^a   Sy, Christopher ^b   Liu, Li Ping ^a   Gao, Pei Yi ^a  

^a CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

3D FLAIR; Mild cognitive impairment; Subcortical vascular dementia; White matter lesions

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; GRAY MATTER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SUBCORTICAL VASCULAR COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; THREE DIMENSIONAL FLUID ATTENUATED INVERSION RECOVERY IMAGING; WHITE MATTER LESION; BRAIN; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; FEMALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; TEMPORAL LOBE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; WHITE MATTER;

AGED; BRAIN; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; COGNITION; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ORGAN SIZE; TEMPORAL LOBE; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84898734222     PISSN: 01616412     EISSN: 17431328     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/1743132814Y.0000000354     Document Type: Article

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