Early frontal structural and functional changes in mild white matter lesions relevant to cognitive decline

Journal of Alzheimer's Disease

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 123-134

  Sun, Xuan ^a,b   Liang, Ying ^b   Wang, Jun ^b   Chen, Kewei ^c   Chen, Yaojing ^b   Zhou, Xiaoqing ^b   Jia, Jianjun ^a   Zhang, Zhanjun ^b  

^a CHINESE PLA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (China)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c BANNER ALZHEIMER S INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognition; diffusion tensor imaging; mild white matter lesions; resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EPISODIC MEMORY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; INFERIOR FRONTOOCCIPITAL FASCICULUS; INFERIOR LONGITUDINAL BUNDLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NERVE FIBER; NERVE TRACT; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WHITE MATTER INJURY; WHITE MATTER LESION;

COGNITION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; MILD WHITE MATTER LESIONS; RESTING-STATE FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION DISORDERS; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84901761218     PISSN: 13872877     EISSN: 18758908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/JAD-131709     Document Type: Article

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