Neurobiology of Aging
Volume 33, Issue 1 , Pages 201.e1-201.e8 , January 2012

The association between white matter hyperintensities and executive decline in mild cognitive impairment is network dependent

  • Heidi I.L. Jacobs

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology, School for Mental Health and Neuroscience (MHeNS), Alzheimer Centre, Limburg, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands
    • European Graduate, School of Neuroscience EURON, Maastricht, the Netherlands
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel: +31 43 388 41 26; fax: +31 43 388 40 92
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  • Pieter Jelle Visser

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology, School for Mental Health and Neuroscience (MHeNS), Alzheimer Centre, Limburg, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands
    • European Graduate, School of Neuroscience EURON, Maastricht, the Netherlands
    • Alzheimer Centre, VU University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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  • Martin P.J. Van Boxtel

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology, School for Mental Health and Neuroscience (MHeNS), Alzheimer Centre, Limburg, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands
    • European Graduate, School of Neuroscience EURON, Maastricht, the Netherlands
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  • Giovanni B. Frisoni

      Affiliations

    • IRCCS San Giovanni, Laboratory of Epidemiology and Neuroimaging, Brescia, Italy
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  • Magda Tsolaki

      Affiliations

    • Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Memory and Dementia Centre, 3rd Department of Neurology, G. Papanicolaore General Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece
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  • Panagiota Papapostolou

      Affiliations

    • Papageorgiou Hospital, Department of Radiology, Thessaloniki, Greece
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  • Flavio Nobili

      Affiliations

    • Clinical Neurophysiology Service, Department of Endocrinological and Metabolic Sciences, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy
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  • Lars-Olof Wahlund

      Affiliations

    • NVS Department, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital, Huddinge, Sweden
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  • Lennart Minthon

      Affiliations

    • Clinical Memory Research Unit, Department of Clinical Sciences, Malmö, Lund University, Sweden
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  • Lutz Frölich

      Affiliations

    • Department of Geriatric Psychiatry, Zentralinstitut für Seelische Gesundheit, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany
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  • Harald Hampel

      Affiliations

    • Alzheimer Memorial Centre and Geriatric Psychiatry Branch, Dementia and Neuroimaging Section Department of Psychiatry, Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich, Germany
    • Discipline of Psychiatry, School of Medicine and Trinity College, Institute of Neuroscience (TCIN), Laboratory of Neuroimaging and Biomarker Research, Trinity College, University of Dublin, Trinity, Centre for Health Sciences, Trinity, Academic Medical Center (The Adelaide and Meath Hospital incorporating the National Children's Hospital (AMNCH)), Dublin 24, Ireland
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  • Hilkka Soininen

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, University of Kuopio, Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland
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  • Laura van de Pol

      Affiliations

    • Alzheimer Centre, VU University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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  • Philip Scheltens

      Affiliations

    • Alzheimer Centre, VU University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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  • Frans E.S. Tan

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology, School for Mental Health and Neuroscience (MHeNS), Alzheimer Centre, Limburg, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands
    • Department of Methodology and Statistics, Maastricht University, the Netherlands
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  • Jelle Jolles

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology, School for Mental Health and Neuroscience (MHeNS), Alzheimer Centre, Limburg, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands
    • European Graduate, School of Neuroscience EURON, Maastricht, the Netherlands
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  • Frans R.J. Verhey

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology, School for Mental Health and Neuroscience (MHeNS), Alzheimer Centre, Limburg, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands
    • European Graduate, School of Neuroscience EURON, Maastricht, the Netherlands

Received 27 October 2009 ,Revised 13 July 2010 ,Accepted 16 July 2010.

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