Disrupted temporal lobe connections in semantic dementia

Brain

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 61-73

  Mummery, C J ^a,c   Patterson, K ^b   Wise, R J S ^a   Vandenbergh, R ^a   Price, C J ^a   Hodges, J R ^b  

^a HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

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

^c WELLCOME TRUST CENTRE FOR NEUROIMAGING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anomia; PET; Semantic dementia; Semantic processing; Temporal lobe

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANOMIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN TOMOGRAPHY; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HUMAN; MALE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 0032935471     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/122.1.61     Document Type: Article

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