Functional imaging of the frontal lobes in organic dementia: Regional cerebral blood flow findings in normals, in patients with frontotemporal dementia and in patients with alzheimer’s disease, performing a word fluency test

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 105-109

  Warkentin, Siegbert ^a   Passant, Ulla ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Activation; Alzheimer s disease; Frontal lobes; Frontotemporal dementia; Normals; Word fluency

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUES; SPEECH ARTICULATION TESTS; TEMPORAL LOBE; XENON RADIOISOTOPES;

EID: 0030946738     PISSN: 14208008     EISSN: 14219824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000106614     Document Type: Article

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