Spatial patterns of atrophy, hypometabolism, and amyloid deposition in Alzheimer's disease correspond to dissociable functional brain networks

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 35-53

  Grothe, Michel J ^a   Teipel, Stefan J ^a,b  

^a GERMAN CENTER FOR NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES DZNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

AV45 PET; Default mode network; FDG PET; Intrinsic connectivity networks; Mild cognitive impairment; Preclinical; Predementia; Resting state functional MRI; Voxel based

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN METABOLISM; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CONNECTOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFAULT MODE NETWORK; FRONTOPARIETAL CORTEX; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; LIMBIC CORTEX; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; AGED; ATROPHY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; COMPLICATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; METABOLIC DISEASES; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE TRACT; PATHOLOGY; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYLOID; ATROPHY; BRAIN; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENTAL STATUS SCHEDULE; METABOLIC DISEASES; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS;

EID: 84954376863     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.23018     Document Type: Article

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