White matter disruption at the prodromal stage of Alzheimer's disease: Relationships with hippocampal atrophy and episodic memory performance

NeuroImage: Clinical

Volumn 7, Issue , 2015, Pages 482-492

  Rémy, Florence ^a   Vayssière, Nathalie ^a   Saint Aubert, Laure ^b   Barbeau, Emmanuel ^a   Pariente, Jérémie ^c  

^a Brain and Cognition Research Center in Toulouse   (France)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c TOULOUSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Cingulum; Diffusion tensor imaging; Episodic memory; Prodromal AD; Uncinate fasciculus

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN FORNIX; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; GRAY MATTER; HIPPOCAMPAL ATROPHY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MALE; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; UNCINATE FASCICULUS; WHITE MATTER; ANISOTROPY; ATROPHY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; IMAGE PROCESSING; NERVE TRACT; PATHOLOGY; PRODROMAL SYMPTOM; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANISOTROPY; ATROPHY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MEMORY, EPISODIC; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PRODROMAL SYMPTOMS; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84922580355     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22131582     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2015.01.014     Document Type: Article

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