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Letter to the Editor |
Nucleus subputaminalis: neglected part of the basal nucleus of Meynert
Department of Neuroscience, School of Medicine, Croatian Institute for Brain Research, Zagreb University, Croatia
Correspondence to: Professor Goran Simic, Department of Neuroscience, School of Medicine, Croatian Institute for Brain Research, Zagreb University, Croatia E-mail: gsimic@hiim.hr
Received November 19, 2005. Accepted January 16, 2006.
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With much pleasure we have read the article written by Stephan Teipel and collaborators (Teipel et al., 2005
) entitled Measurement of basal forebrain atrophy in Alzheimer's disease using MRI published on July 13 in Brain. We cannot but agree that the automated technique of image regression analysis implemented to the analysis of proton density weighted structural MRI of the basal forebrain presented in the article might have excellent value for in vivo determination of the