Cerebral blood flow patterns underlying the differential impairment in category vs letter fluency in Alzheimer's disease

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1251-1261

  Keilp, J G ^a,b   Gorlyn, M ^a,b   Alexander, G E ^a,b   Stern, Y ^a,b   Prohovnik, I ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Departments of Neurology Radiol Psychiat Coll Phys S ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Cerebral blood flow; Verbal fluency

Indexed keywords

XENON 133;

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; LANGUAGE; LETTER; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PARIETAL LOBE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0032863926     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3932(99)00032-9     Document Type: Article

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