Amygdalar volume and emotional memory in Alzheimer's disease

American Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 156, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 216-222

  Mori, Etsuro ^a   Ikeda, Manabu ^b   Hirono, Nobutsugu ^b   Kitagaki, Hajime ^b   Imamura, Toru ^b   Shimomura, Tatsuo ^b  

^a Hyogo Inst Aging Brain Cogn D   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MEMORY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYGDALA; ATROPHY; CELL COUNT; COGNITION DISORDERS; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; JAPAN; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; NATURAL DISASTERS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0033021023     PISSN: 0002953X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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