Perfusion shift from white to gray matter may account for processing speed deficits in schizophrenia

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 3793-3804

  Wright, Susan N ^a   Hong, L Elliot ^a   Winkler, Anderson M ^b   Chiappelli, Joshua ^a   Nugent, Katie ^a   Muellerklein, Florian ^a   Du, Xioming ^a   Rowland, Laura M ^a,c,e   Wang, Danny J J ^d   Kochunov, Peter ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute change; Attention; Cognition; DTI FA; Nicotine; Processing speed; White matter

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERIAL SPIN LABELING; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN PERFUSION; BRAIN SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MENTAL PATIENT; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SPIN LABELING; VELOCITY; WHITE MATTER; WORKING MEMORY; YOUNG ADULT; ALGORITHM; BRAIN CIRCULATION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERFUSION; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SMOKING; VASCULARIZATION;

SPIN LABEL;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; PERFUSION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; SMOKING; SPIN LABELS; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84942292003     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.22878     Document Type: Article

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