Loss of neurons in the nucleus basalis of Meynert in Alzheimer's disease, paralysis agitans and Korsakoff's disease

Acta Neuropathologica

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 1983, Pages 101-108

  Arendt, T ^a   Bigl, V ^a   Arendt, A ^a   Tennstedt, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b District Hospital of Neurology and Psychiatry ^*  (DDR)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Dementia; Korsakoff's disease; Neuronal loss; Nucleus basalis of Meynert; Paralysis agitans

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEMENTIA; DIAGNOSIS; FATALITY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; KORSAKOFF PSYCHOSIS; MEYNERT CELL; NERVE CELL LOSS; OLIVARY NUCLEUS; ORGANIC BRAIN SYNDROME; PARKINSON DISEASE;

ALCOHOL AMNESTIC DISORDER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN; CELL COUNT; HUMAN; NEURONS; PARKINSON DISEASE;

EID: 0020634081     PISSN: 00016322     EISSN: 14320533     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00697388     Document Type: Article

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