Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
Volume 181, Issue 2 , Pages 90-96 , 28 February 2010

Influences of lobar gray matter and white matter lesion load on cognition and mood

  • Susanne G. Mueller

      Affiliations

    • Center for Imaging of Neurodegenerative Diseases, VAMC/University of California San Francisco, 4150 Clement Street, San Francisco, CA, 94121, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Center for Imaging of Neurodegenerative Diseases, Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA) Medical Center, 4150 Clement Street, San Francisco, CA, 94121, USA. Tel.: +1 415 221 4810x2538; fax: +1 415 668 2864.
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  • Wendy J. Mack

      Affiliations

    • Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 90089, USA
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  • Dan Mungas

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis, 4860 Y Street, Suite 3700, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
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  • Joel H. Kramer

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, San Francisco Medical Center, University of California, 905 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, CA. 94143, USA
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  • Valerie Cardenas-Nicolson

      Affiliations

    • Center for Imaging of Neurodegenerative Diseases, VAMC/University of California San Francisco, 4150 Clement Street, San Francisco, CA, 94121, USA
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  • Helen Lavretsky

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California, 760 Westwood Plaza, 37-372A, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA
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  • Maxwell Greene

      Affiliations

    • Center for Imaging of Neurodegenerative Diseases, VAMC/University of California San Francisco, 4150 Clement Street, San Francisco, CA, 94121, USA
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  • Norbert Schuff

      Affiliations

    • Center for Imaging of Neurodegenerative Diseases, VAMC/University of California San Francisco, 4150 Clement Street, San Francisco, CA, 94121, USA
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  • Helena C. Chui

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, University of Southern California, 1510 San Pablo Street, Suite 618, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA
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  • Michael W. Weiner

      Affiliations

    • Center for Imaging of Neurodegenerative Diseases, VAMC/University of California San Francisco, 4150 Clement Street, San Francisco, CA, 94121, USA

Received 7 October 2008 ,Revised 30 March 2009 ,Accepted 4 August 2009.

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PII: S0925-4927(09)00178-4

doi: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2009.08.002

Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
Volume 181, Issue 2 , Pages 90-96 , 28 February 2010

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