Disrupted structural and functional brain connectomes in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease

Neuroscience Bulletin

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 217-232

  Dai, Zhengjia ^a   He, Yong ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

connectivity; connectome; DTI; EEG MEG; fMRI; graph theory; MRI; small world

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN NETWORK; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONNECTOME; DEMENTIA; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPATHOLOGY; REVIEW; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NERVE TRACT; PATHOLOGY;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CONNECTOME; HUMANS; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NEURAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 84899678569     PISSN: 16737067     EISSN: 19958218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12264-013-1421-0     Document Type: Review

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