Explicit memory in frontotemporal dementia: The role of medial temporal atrophy

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 99-102

  Lavenu, I ^a   Pasquier, F ^a   Lebert, F ^a   Pruvo, J P ^a   Petit, H ^a  

^a LILLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

CT scan; Frontotemporal dementia; Medial temporal lobe; Memory; Pick's disease

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEMENTIA; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; PICK PRESENILE DEMENTIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 0031889813     PISSN: 14208008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000017030     Document Type: Article

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