Structural integrity of the contralesional hemisphere predicts cognitive impairment in ischemic stroke at three months

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Dacosta Aguayo, Rosalia ^b   Graña, Manuel ^b   Fernández Andújar, Marina ^a,d   López Cancio, Elena ^c   Cáceres, Cynthia ^c   Bargalló, Núria ^e,f   Barrios, Maite ^a   Clemente, Immaculada ^a,d   Monserrat, Pere Toran ^h   Sas, Maite Alzamora ^h   Dávalos, Antoni ^c   Auer, Tibor ^g   Mataró, Maria ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d Institute for Brain Cognition and Behavior (IR3C)   (Spain)

^e HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

^f INSTITUT D INVESTIGACIONS BIOMÈDIQUES AUGUST PI I SUNYER IDIBAPS   (Spain)

^g MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^h Primary Healthcare Research Support Unit Metropolitana Nord Institut Universitari d'Investigació en Atenció Primària 2IDIAP Jordi Gol   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AXIAL DIFFUSIVITY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; RADIAL DIFFUSIVITY; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; WHITE MATTER;

AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITION DISORDERS; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; STROKE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84899821329     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0086119     Document Type: Article

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