| Literature DB >> 16466836 |
Heii Arai1, Maki Takano, Koichi Miyakawa, Tsuneyoshi Ota, Tadashi Takahashi, Hirokazu Asaka, Tsuneaki Kawaguchi.
Abstract
A newly developed quantitative near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) system was used to measure changes in cortical hemoglobin oxygenation during the Verbal Fluency Task in 32 healthy controls, 15 subjects with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and 15 patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD). The amplitude of changes in the waveform, which was quantitatively calculated by a signal processing method, was significantly lower in the frontal, and the bilateral parietal areas in the AD group, whereas that in the MCI group was significantly lower only in the right parietal area. The NIRS system may be a potential tool for the primary screening of AD.Entities:
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Year: 2006 PMID： 16466836 DOI： 10.1016/j.bandc.2005.12.012
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Brain Cogn ISSN： 0278-2626 Impact factor: 2.310