Cognitive impairments associated with medial temporal atrophy and white matter hyperintensities: An MRI study in memory clinic patients

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience

Volumn 6, Issue MAY, 2014, Pages

  Overdorp, Eduard J ^a,b   Kessels, Roy P C ^b,c   Claassen, Jurgen A ^c   Oosterman, Joukje M ^b  

^a Gelre Medical Centre   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Episodic memory; Executive function; Global atrophy; Global cognition; Gray matter

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPISODIC MEMORY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; GLOBAL COGNITION; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIAL TEMPORAL ATROPHY; NETHERLANDS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PSYCHOMOTOR ACTIVITY; PSYCHOMOTOR SPEED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; WHITE MATTER HYPERINTENSITY; WHITE MATTER LESION; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 84987643793     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16634365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2014.00098     Document Type: Article

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