TY - JOUR T1 - Brain atrophy in dementia judged by CT scan ranking. JF - American Journal of Neuroradiology JO - Am. J. Neuroradiol. SP - 499 LP - 500 VL - 4 IS - 3 AU - M Gado AU - J Patel AU - C P Hughes AU - W Danziger AU - L Berg Y1 - 1983/05/01 UR - http://www.ajnr.org/content/4/3/499.abstract N2 - In order to further investigate the relationships of brain atrophy, age, and dementia, computed tomographic (CT) scans on two groups of subjects aged 65-80 years were rank-ordered according to ventricular and sulcal size. Each group contained subjects with mild senile dementia of the Alzheimer type (SDAT) and matched controls. In both experiments there was a strong correlation between these rank orders, ventricular size, and the clinical dementia rating. There was also a weaker but significant correlation between rank ordering and sulcal size. This suggests that brain atrophy in excess of that normal for age alone occurs in early SDAT. ER -