Interhemispheric functional and structural disconnection in Alzheimer's disease: A combined resting-state fMRI and DTI study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Wang, Zhiqun ^a   Wang, Jianli ^b   Zhang, Han ^c   Mchugh, Robert ^b   Sun, Xiaoyu ^b   Li, Kuncheng ^a,d,e   Yang, Qing X ^b  

^a CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c HANGZHOU NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e Beijing Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Brain Informatics   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INTERHEMISPHERIC FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY; INTERHEMISPHERIC STRUCTURAL CONNECTIVITY; INTERHEMISPHERIC TRANSFER; MALE; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; OCCIPITAL GYRUS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SUBCORTEX; VOXEL MIRRORED HOMOTOPIC CONNECTIVITY; BRAIN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE;

EID: 84929121411     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0126310     Document Type: Article

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