Neural basis for sentence comprehension deficits in frontotemporal dementia

Brain and Language

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 211-221

  Cooke, Ayanna ^a   DeVita, Christian ^a   Gee, James ^a   Alsop, David ^a   Detre, John ^a   Chen, Willis ^a   Grossman, Murray ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; APHASIA; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FRONTAL CORTEX; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OXIMETRY; READING; SOCIOPATHY; VERBAL MEMORY;

EID: 0038301222     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0093-934X(02)00562-X     Document Type: Article

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