Amygdala-hippocampal atrophy and memory performance in dementia of alzheimer type

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 329-336

  Heun, Reinhard ^a,c   Mazanek, Martin ^b   Atzor, Klaus Rainer ^b   Tintera, Jaroslav ^b   Gawehn, Joachim ^b   Burkart, Martin ^c   Gänsicke, Michael ^c   Falkaic, Peter ^a   Stoeter, Peter ^b  

^a Departments of Psychiatry   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alzheimer s disease; Dementia; Hippocampus; Magnetic resonance imaging; Memory; Psychometry; Volumetry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMNESIA; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN DEGENERATION; BRAIN SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 0030698742     PISSN: 14208008     EISSN: 14219824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000106651     Document Type: Article

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