Neural basis for semantic memory difficulty in Alzheimer's disease: An fMRI study

Brain

Volumn 126, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 292-311

  Grossman, Murray ^a,b   Koenig, Phyllis ^a   Glosser, Guila ^a   DeVita, Chris ^a   Moore, Peachie ^a   Rhee, Jina ^a   Detre, John ^a   Alsop, David ^a   Gee, Jim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Comprehension; Cortex; FMR1; Semantic

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION CORTEX; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PARIETAL LOBE; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 0037314878     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awg027     Document Type: Article

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