Constructional apraxia in Alzheimer's disease correlates with neuritic neuropathology in occipital cortex

Brain Research

Volumn 741, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 284-293

  Nielson, Kristy A ^a,b   Cummings, Brian J ^a   Cotman, Carl W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

amyloid; AT8; constructional apraxia; dystrophic neurite; neurofibrillary tangle; occipital cortex; parietal lobe; praxis

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; TAU PROTEIN;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; APRAXIA; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN CORTEX; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLE; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; APRAXIAS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NEURITES; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLES; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OCCIPITAL LOBE; TAU PROTEINS;

EID: 0030602038     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(96)00983-3     Document Type: Article

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