Atrophy of the hippocampal formation in early familial Alzheimer's disease: A longitudinal MRI study of at-risk members of a family with an amyloid precursor protein 717VAL-GLY mutation

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 777, Issue , 1996, Pages 226-232

  Fox, N C ^a,b   Warrington, E K ^a   Stevens, J M ^a,b   Rossor, M N ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

^b ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN;

ADULT; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BRAIN ATROPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; FAMILIAL DISEASE; GENE MUTATION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; VOLUMETRY;

EID: 0029969338     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1996.tb34423.x     Document Type: Article

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