Impaired decision-making and selective cortical frontal thinning in Cushing's syndrome

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 81, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 826-833

  Crespo, Iris ^a   Esther, Granell Moreno ^b   Santos, Alicia ^a   Valassi, Elena ^a   Yolanda, Vives Gilabert ^c   De Juan Delago, Manel ^b   Webb, Susan M ^a   Gõmez Ansõn, Beatriz ^b   Resmini, Eugenia ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^b Hospital Sant Pau   (Spain)

^c INNDACYT   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ADULT; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL THICKNESS (BRAIN); CUSHING SYNDROME; DECISION MAKING; DISEASE DURATION; EXPERIMENTAL COGNITIVE TEST; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; GAMBLING; HUMAN; HYPERCORTISOLISM; INSULA; IOWA GAMBLING TASK; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; THINKING IMPAIRMENT; VERBAL MEMORY; WHITE MATTER; BRAIN; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FRONTAL LOBE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; BRAIN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COGNITION DISORDERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CUSHING SYNDROME; DECISION MAKING; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

EID: 84912534740     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: 13652265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cen.12564     Document Type: Article

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