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Clock drawing performance and brain morphology in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease

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BRAIN AND COGNITION
卷 67, 期 1, 页码 88-93

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ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2007.11.008

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clock drawing; mild cognitive impairment; Alzheimer's disease (AD); magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); voxel based morphometry (VBM); structural changes

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The Clock Drawing Test (CDT) is a widely used instrument in the neuropsychological assessment of Alzheimer's disease (AD). As CDT performance necessitates several cognitive functions (e.g., visuospatial and constructional abilities, executive functioning), an interaction of multiple brain regions is likely. Fifty-one subjects with mild cognitive impairment, 23 with AD and 15 healthy controls underwent high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging. Optimized voxel-based morphometry (VBM) was performed to investigate the putative association between CDT performance and gray matter (GM) density throughout the entire brain. In the first step of analysis (p<.001, uncorrected), VBM revealed a reduced GM density in numerous cortical (temporal lobe, frontal lobe, parietal lobe, cerebellum) and subcortical (thalamus, basal ganglia) brain regions to be associated with poorer CDT performance. When corrected for multiple comparisons (p<.01), the associations remained significant predominantly in the left temporal and-less pronounced-the right temporal lobe. VBM demonstrated CDT performance to depend on the integrity of widely distributed cortical and subcortical areas in both brain hemispheres with accentuation in the left-sided temporal lobe region. (C) 2007 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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