Association of cerebral microbleeds with cognitive decline and dementia

JAMA Neurology

Volumn 73, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 934-943

  Akoudad, Saloua ^a   Wolters, Frank J ^a   Viswanathan, Anand ^b   De Bruijn, Renée F ^a   Van Der Lugt, Aad ^a   Hofman, Albert ^a   Koudstaal, Peter J ^a   Arfan Ikram, M ^a   Vernooij, Meike W ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

15-WORD VERBAL LEARNING TEST; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN REGION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DEMENTIA ASSESSMENT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDUCATION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENDER; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LETTER DIGIT SUBSTITUTION TASK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PURDUE PEGBOARD TEST; RISK; STROOP TEST; WORD FLUENCY TEST; BRAIN; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; COGNITION DISORDERS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; IMAGE PROCESSING; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; COGNITION DISORDERS; COMMUNITY HEALTH PLANNING; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84979991595     PISSN: 21686149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamaneurol.2016.1017     Document Type: Article

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