Thalamic fractional anisotropy predicts accrual of cerebral white matter damage in older subjects with small-vessel disease

Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1321-1327

  Cavallari, Michele ^a,b   Moscufo, Nicola ^a   Meier, Dominik ^a   Skudlarski, Pawel ^c   Pearlson, Godfrey D ^c,d   White, William B ^e   Wolfson, Leslie ^e   Guttmann, Charles R G ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c INSTITUTE OF LIVING   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

aging; deep gray matter; diffusion tensor imaging; magnetic resonance imaging; small vessel disease; white matter hyperintensities

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN;

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CEREBRAL WHITE MATTER HYPERINTENSITY; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; COGNITION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FOLLOW UP; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; THALAMUS; WHITE MATTER INJURY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANISOTROPY; CEREBRAL SMALL VESSEL DISEASES; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHIES; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THALAMUS;

EID: 84905439128     PISSN: 0271678X     EISSN: 15597016     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/jcbfm.2014.86     Document Type: Article

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