Structural network connectivity and cognition in cerebral small vessel disease

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 300-310

  Tuladhar, Anil M ^a,b   van Dijk, Ewoud ^a   Zwiers, Marcel P ^a,b   van Norden, Anouk G W ^c   de Laat, Karlijn F ^d   Shumskaya, Elena ^b,e   Norris, David G ^b,f,g   de Leeuw, Frank Erik ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c AMPHIA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^d HAGA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^e RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cerebral small vessel disease; Cognition; Graph theory; Structural brain networks

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONNECTOME; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; STRUCTURAL NETWORK CONNECTIVITY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION DISORDERS; COMPLICATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE TRACT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATHOLOGY; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL SMALL VESSEL DISEASES; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84954369743     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.23032     Document Type: Article

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