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Brain imaging, connectivity and assessment

1,533 studies in this group. A computer grouped them by what their titles and summaries are about, not by a hand-made list. The name describes most of the group, not every study in it.

Each study has a usefulness score out of 100 (rubric version 4.0). Tap a score to see what makes it up.

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  1. Spatially augmented LPboosting for AD classification with evaluations on the ADNI dataset

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. NeuroImage 2009-05-27 Digital health tools

    Structural and functional brain images are playing an important role in helping us understand the changes associated with neurological disorders such as Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  2. Cognitive reserve

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neuropsychologia 2009-03-13 Risk factors

    The concept of reserve has been proposed to account for the disjunction between the degree of brain damage and its clinical outcome.

  3. Proposed diagnostic criteria for apathy in Alzheimer's disease and other neuropsychiatric disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists 2009-02-07 Getting a diagnosis

    There is wide acknowledgement that apathy is an important behavioural syndrome in Alzheimer's disease and in various neuropsychiatric disorders.

  4. Selective functional, regional, and neuronal vulnerability in frontotemporal dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Current opinion in neurology 2008-12-01 Digital health tools

    The molecular neuroscience revolution has begun to rekindle interest in fundamental neuroanatomy.

  5. Gait capacity affects cortical activation patterns related to speed control in the elderly

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Experimental brain research 2008-11-22 Digital health tools

    Functional decline in locomotion is common among the elderly, and the prevalence of gait disorders increases with age.

  6. Functional decline in cognitive impairment--the relationship between physical and cognitive function

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neuroepidemiology 2008-09-11 Prevention trials

    Poor physical function and muscle strength coexisted with cognitive impairment.

  7. Conceptual knowledge is underpinned by the temporal pole bilaterally: convergent evidence from rTMS

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) 2008-08-04 Digital health tools

    Conceptual knowledge provides the basis on which we bring meaning to our world.

  8. Resting-state functional connectivity in neuropsychiatric disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Current opinion in neurology 2008-08-01 Brain scans and imaging

    This review considers recent advances in the application of resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging to the study of neuropsychiatric disorders.

  9. Modulation of temporally coherent brain networks estimated using ICA at rest and during cognitive tasks

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Human brain mapping 2008-07-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Brain regions which exhibit temporally coherent fluctuations, have been increasingly studied using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).

  10. The measurement of everyday cognition (ECog): scale development and psychometric properties

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neuropsychology 2008-07-01 Risk factors

    This article describes the development and validation of an instrument to assess cognitively mediated functional abilities in older adults, Everyday Cognition (ECog).

  11. Stereotaxic probabilistic maps of the magnocellular cell groups in human basal forebrain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. NeuroImage 2008-06-07 Brain scans and imaging

    The basal forebrain contains several interdigitating anatomical structures, including the diagonal band of Broca, the basal nucleus of Meynert, the ventral striatum, and also cell groups underneath the globus pallidus that bridge the centromedial amygdala to the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis.

  12. Structural insights into aberrant topological patterns of large-scale cortical networks in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2008-04-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Recent research on Alzheimer's disease (AD) has shown that cognitive and memory decline in this disease is accompanied by disrupted changes in the coordination of large-scale brain functional networks.

  13. Assessing change in cognitive function in dementia: the relative utilities of the Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Scale-Cognitive Subscale and the Cognitive Drug Research system

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neuro-degenerative diseases 2008-03-06 Cognitive tests and assessment

    This paper considers the suitability of the Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Scale-Cognitive Subscale (ADAS-cog) as the gold standard in registration trials of treatments for Alzheimer's disease.

  14. Treatment of Susac's Syndrome

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Current treatment options in neurology 2008-01-01 Risk factors

    Susac's syndrome (SS) consists of the triad of encephalopathy, branch retinal artery occlusions (BRAO), and hearing loss.

  15. Guidelines for management of idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neurologia medico-chirurgica 2008-01-01 Digital health tools

    With the rapid aging of Japanese society, medical care of the elderly has become an important social issue.

  16. Altered functional connectivity in early Alzheimer's disease: a resting-state fMRI study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Human brain mapping 2007-10-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Previous studies have led to the proposal that patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) may have disturbed functional connectivity between different brain regions.

  17. The precuneus and consciousness

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. CNS spectrums 2007-07-01 Risk factors

    This article reviews the rapidly growing literature on the functional anatomy and behavioral correlates of the precuneus, with special reference to imaging neuroscience studies using hamodynamic techniques.

  18. Depression rating scales in Parkinson's disease: critique and recommendations

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society 2007-06-01 Risk factors

    For measurement of severity of depressive symptoms, the Ham-D, MADRS, BDI, and SDS scales are recommended.

  19. Diagnostic criteria for psychosis in Parkinson's disease: report of an NINDS, NIMH work group

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society 2007-06-01 Health systems and care delivery

    There are no standardized diagnostic criteria for psychosis associated with Parkinson's disease (PDPsy).

  20. Gait in ageing and associated dementias; its relationship with cognition

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews 2007-02-15 Digital health tools

    The focus of this review is on the close relationship between gait and cognition in ageing and associated dementias.

  21. Regional coherence changes in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease: a combined structural and resting-state functional MRI study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. NeuroImage 2007-01-24 Brain scans and imaging

    Recent functional imaging studies have indicated that the pathophysiology of Alzheimer's disease (AD) can be associated with the changes in spontaneous low-frequency (<0.08 Hz) blood oxygenation level-dependent fluctuations (LFBF) measured during a resting state.

  22. Resting state oscillatory brain dynamics in Parkinson's disease: an MEG study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Clinical neurophysiology : official journal of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology 2006-09-25 Brain scans and imaging

    Parkinson's disease is characterized by a slowing of resting state brain activity involving theta, beta and gamma frequency bands.

  23. Changes in motor subtype and risk for incident dementia in Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society 2006-08-01 Digital health tools

    The objective of this study was to assess the temporal relationship between changes in predominant motor symptoms and incident dementia in Parkinson's disease (PD).

  24. Nonlinear dynamical analysis of EEG and MEG: review of an emerging field

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Clinical neurophysiology : official journal of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology 2005-10-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Many complex and interesting phenomena in nature are due to nonlinear phenomena.

  25. Diagnosis, treatment, and analysis of long-term outcomes in idiopathic normal-pressure hydrocephalus

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neurosurgery 2005-10-01 Digital health tools

    INPH can be diagnosed accurately with CSF pressure monitoring and CSF drainage via a spinal catheter.

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