Conscientiousness is Negatively Associated with Grey Matter Volume in Young APOE ϵ4-Carriers

Journal of Alzheimer's Disease

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 1135-1144

  Kunz, Lukas ^a,b,c   Reuter, Martin ^b   Axmacher, Nikolai ^a,b,c   Montag, Christian ^d,e  

^a GERMAN CENTER FOR NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES DZNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; apolipoprotein E; big five; Freesurfer; NEO FFI; personality; voxel based morphometry

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E4; APOLIPOPROTEIN E3;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CONSCIENTIOUSNESS; EXTRAVERSION; FEMALE; FIVE FACTOR MODEL OF PERSONALITY; GENETIC RISK; GENOTYPE; GRAY MATTER; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HETEROZYGOTE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; IMAGING SOFTWARE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORBITAL CORTEX; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TEST; PLEIOTROPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; YOUNG ADULT; BRAIN; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; GENETICS; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUE; IMAGE PROCESSING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ORGAN SIZE; SELF REPORT;

APOLIPOPROTEIN E3; APOLIPOPROTEIN E4; BRAIN; FEMALE; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUES; GRAY MATTER; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ORGAN SIZE; PERSONALITY; SELF REPORT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85011570343     PISSN: 13872877     EISSN: 18758908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/JAD-160854     Document Type: Article

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