Changes in white matter as determinant of global functional decline in older independent outpatients: three year follow-up of LADIS (leukoaraiosis and disability) study cohort.

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Published in BMJ on July 06, 2009

Authors

Domenico Inzitari1, Giovanni Pracucci, Anna Poggesi, Giovanna Carlucci, Frederik Barkhof, Hugues Chabriat, Timo Erkinjuntti, Franz Fazekas, José M Ferro, Michael Hennerici, Peter Langhorne, John O'Brien, Philip Scheltens, Marieke C Visser, Lars-Olof Wahlund, Gunhild Waldemar, Anders Wallin, Leonardo Pantoni, LADIS Study Group

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Neurological and Psychiatric Sciences, University of Florence, Viale Morgagni 85, 50134 Firenze, Italy. inzitari@neuro.unifi.it

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