Deep microbleeds and periventricular white matter disintegrity are independent predictors of attention/executive dysfunction in non-dementia patients with small vessel disease

International Psychogeriatrics

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 793-803

  Cao, Wen Wei ^a   Wang, Yao ^a   Dong, Quan ^a   Chen, Xue ^a   Li, Yan Sheng ^a   Zhou, Yan ^a   Gao, Li ^a   Deng, Ye ^a   Xu, Qun ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

cerebral microbleeds; diffusion tensor imaging; small vessel disease; vascular cognitive impairment; vascular mild cognitive impairment

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DISTURBANCE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN SIZE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LANGUAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SPATIAL MEMORY; WHITE MATTER LESION; ATTENTION; CHINA; COMPLICATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WHITE MATTER;

AGED; ATTENTION; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; CEREBRAL SMALL VESSEL DISEASES; CHINA; COGNITIVE DYSFUNCTION; COHORT STUDIES; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PROGNOSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 85004009707     PISSN: 10416102     EISSN: 1741203X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1041610216002118     Document Type: Article

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