Widespread white matter degeneration preceding the onset of dementia

Alzheimer's and Dementia

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 485-493.e2

  Maier Hein, Klaus H ^a,b   Westin, Carl Fredrik ^a   Shenton, Martha E ^a,c   Weiner, Michael W ^d   Raj, Ashish ^e   Thomann, Philipp ^f   Kikinis, Ron ^a   Stieltjes, Bram ^b   Pasternak, Ofer ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Diffusion tensor imaging; Free water imaging; Mild cognitive impairment; Partial volume elimination

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEGENERATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WHITE MATTER; ANISOTROPY; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPLICATION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISEASE COURSE; IMAGE PROCESSING; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; MYELINATED NERVE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATHOLOGY; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANISOTROPY; COGNITIVE DYSFUNCTION; DEMENTIA; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MENTAL STATUS SCHEDULE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84929284506     PISSN: 15525260     EISSN: 15525279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jalz.2014.04.518     Document Type: Article

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