Hippocampal pathology reflects memory deficit and brain imaging measurements in alzheimers disease: Clinicopathologic correlations using three sets of pathologic diagnostic criteria

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 76-81

  Nagy, Z ^a   Jobst, K A ^a   Esiri, M M ^b   Morris, J H ^b   MacDonald, B ^b   Litchfield, S ^a   Barnetson, L ^a   Smith, A D ^b  

^a RADCLIFFE INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alzheimer s disease; Computed tomography; Hippocampus; Memory deficit

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN TOMOGRAPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LATERAL GENICULATE BODY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLE; ONSET AGE; PATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; SENILE PLAQUE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN PRECURSOR; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MEMORY DISORDERS; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLES;

EID: 0030061020     PISSN: 14208008     EISSN: 14219824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000106857     Document Type: Article

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