Brain correlates of performance in a free/cued recall task with semantic encoding in Alzheimer disease

Alzheimer Disease and Associated Disorders

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 35-45

  Lekeu, Françoise ^a,b   Van der Linden, Martial ^a,c   Chicherio, Christian ^a   Collette, Fabienne ^a   Degueldre, Christian ^a   Franck, Georges ^a,b   Moonen, Gustave ^a,b   Salmon, Eric ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Alzheimer disease; Episodic memory; Frontal areas; Parahippocampal regions

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; GLUCOSE;

ADAPTATION; ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN METABOLISM; BRAIN SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVARIANCE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GLUCOSE BRAIN LEVEL; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; SCORING SYSTEM; SEMANTICS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL PARAMETRIC MAPPING; SUBICULUM; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CUES; FEMALE; GLUCOSE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SEMANTICS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0037222954     PISSN: 08930341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00002093-200301000-00005     Document Type: Article

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