Network-selective vulnerability of the human cerebellum to Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia

Brain

Volumn 139, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1527-1538

  Guo, Christine C ^a   Tan, Rachel ^b,c   Hodges, John R ^b,c,d   Hu, Xintao ^e   Sami, Saber ^f   Hornberger, Michael ^b,d,g  

^a QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d ARC CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE IN COGNITION AND ITS DISORDERS   (Australia)

^e NORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cerebellum; intrinsic connectivity; neurodegeneration; selective vulnerability

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; APRAXIA OF SPEECH; ARTICLE; CEREBELLUM; CEREBELLUM ATROPHY; CONNECTOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; FRONTAL VARIANT FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE APHASIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WHITE MATTER; AGED; ATROPHY; BRAIN CORTEX; CASE CONTROL STUDY; NERVE TRACT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; APHASIA, PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE; ATROPHY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CEREBELLUM; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROIMAGING;

EID: 84966668210     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/aww003     Document Type: Article

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