Category specific semantic loss in dementia of Alzheimer's type. Functional-anatomical correlations from cross-sectional analyses

Brain

Volumn 121, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 633-646

  Garrard, Peter ^a   Patterson, Karalyn ^b   Watson, Peter C ^b   Hodges, John R ^a,b  

^a ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Category specificity; Dementia of Alzheimer's type; Semantic memory

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; VERBAL MEMORY;

EID: 0031976149     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/121.4.633     Document Type: Article

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