| Literature DB >> 16904823 |
Audrey Duarte1, Satoru Hayasaka, Antao Du, Norbert Schuff, Geon-Ho Jahng, Joel Kramer, Bruce Miller, Michael Weiner.
Abstract
In Alzheimer's disease (AD), atrophy negatively impacts cognition while in healthy adults, inverse relationships between brain volume and cognition may occur. We investigated correlations between gray matter volume and cognition in elderly controls, AD and mild cognitive impairment (MCI) patients with memory and executive deficits. AD demonstrated substantial loss in temporal, parietal and frontal regions while MCI exhibited moderate volume loss in temporal and frontal regions. In controls, memory and executive function were negatively correlated with frontal regions, while in AD, memory was positively correlated with temporal and frontal gyri, and executive function with frontal regions. The combination of the two patterns may explain the lack of correlations in MCI. Developmental versus pathological contributions to these relationships are discussed.Entities:
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Year: 2006 PMID: 16904823 PMCID: PMC1779764 DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2006.07.029
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Neurosci Lett ISSN: 0304-3940 Impact factor: 3.046