Medial temporal structures relate to memory impairment in Alzheimer's disease: An MRI volumetric study

Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 214-221

  Mori, Etsuro ^a   Yoneda, Yukihiro ^b   Yamashita, Hikari ^a   Hirono, Nobutsugu ^a   Ikeda, Manabu ^a   Yamadori, Atsushi ^c  

^a Hyogo Institute for Aging Brain and Cognitive Disorders   (Japan)

^b Hyogo Brain and Heart Center   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Magnetic resonance imaging; Medial temporal lobe; Memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMNESIA; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MEMORY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SUBICULUM; SYMPTOM; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VERBAL MEMORY; VISUAL MEMORY; VOLUMETRY;

EID: 0030797810     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.63.2.214     Document Type: Article

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