Amygdala, affect and cognition: Evidence from 10 patients with Urbach-Wiethe disease

Brain

Volumn 126, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 2627-2637

  Siebert, Michaela ^a   Markowitsch, Hans J ^a   Bartel, Peter ^b  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Emotion; Functional brain imaging; Long term memory; PET; SPECT

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGING; LIPOID PROTEINOSIS; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NEURORADIOLOGY; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; AMYGDALA; COGNITION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIPOID PROTEINOSIS OF URBACH AND WIETHE; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0344443236     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awg271     Document Type: Article

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