Dementia of the frontal lobe type report of the neuroimaging and neuropsychological results of a case study

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 155-160

  Venneri, A ^a   Grassi, F ^b   Caffarra, P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Behavioural disorders; Dementia of frontal lobe type; Frontotemporal dementia; SPECT neuropsychology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN VENTRICLE DILATATION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRONTAL LOBE; FRONTAL LOBE DEMENTIA; FRONTAL LOBE SYNDROME; HUMAN; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NEURORADIOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THALAMUS;

BEHAVIOR; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0029919633     PISSN: 14208008     EISSN: 14219824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000106871     Document Type: Article

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