DWI and complex brain network analysis predicts vascular cognitive impairment in spontaneous hypertensive rats undergoing executive function tests

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience

Volumn 6, Issue JUN, 2014, Pages 1-33

  López Gil, Xavier ^a   Amat Roldan, Iván ^b   Tudela, Raúl ^a,c   Castañ, Anna ^d,e   Prats Galino, Alberto ^f   Planas, Anna M ^d   Farr, Tracy D ^g   Soria, Guadalupe ^a,c  

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

^b Expert Ymaging SL   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d INST D INVESTIGACIONS B   (Spain)

^e CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN BIOMÉDICA EN RED DE SALUD MENTAL CIBERSAM   (Spain)

^f Facultat de Medicina   (Spain)

^g CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Animal models; Connectomics; Dti; Dwi; Executive function; Hypertension; In vivo MRI; Vascular cognitive impairment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION CORTEX; BRAIN; BRAIN NETWORK; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONNECTOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DECISION MAKING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; GRAY MATTER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPERTENSION; LEARNING; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; ORBITAL CORTEX; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RAT; SKILL; TRACTOGRAPHY; VALIDATION STUDY; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84904538849     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16634365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2014.00167     Document Type: Article

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