| Literature DB >> 10806328 |
S A Rombouts1, F Barkhof, M P Witter, P Scheltens.
Abstract
In patients with Alzheimer's disease, substantial tissue loss occurs in the medial temporal lobe. In this study, we applied a voxel-based, unbiased whole-brain analysis method to compare magnetic resonance imaging scans of seven patients with Alzheimer's disease and seven healthy elderly controls. Images were transformed to standard coordinate space and tested for gray matter loss in patients. We found symmetrical decreases of gray matter in patients in the hippocampus, and, unexpectedly, also in the head of the caudate nucleus and the insula. The exact role of these two structures in the symptomatology of Alzheimer's disease deserves further attention.Entities:
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Year: 2000 PMID: 10806328 DOI: 10.1016/s0304-3940(00)01067-3
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Neurosci Lett ISSN: 0304-3940 Impact factor: 3.046