Atrophy of Hippocampus in patients with alzheimer’s disease and other diseases with memory impairment

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 182-186

  Horn, R ^a   Ostertun, B ^a   Frica, M ^a   Solymosi, L ^a   Steudel, A ^a   Mollev H J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alzheimer s disease; Depression AAMI; Hippocampus; Memory impairment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEURORADIOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ATROPHY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEMORY DISORDERS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0029817690     PISSN: 14208008     EISSN: 14219824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000106876     Document Type: Article

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