Shades of white: Separating degrees of injury in the aging brain

Stroke

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1606-1607

  Viswanathan, Anand ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

aging; cognition; leukoencephalopathies

Indexed keywords

AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE THERAPY; BRAIN INJURY; COGNITION; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EDITORIAL; FOLLOW UP; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; INTERVENTION STUDY; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; VASCULAR AMYLOIDOSIS; WHITE MATTER; WHITE MATTER INJURY;

AGING; COGNITION; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHIES;

AGING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 84901848633     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.114.005165     Document Type: Editorial

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