Visual Processing Impairments and Decrements in Regional Brain Activity in Alzheimer's Disease

Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 11-23

  Van Rhijn, Salina J ^a   Glosser, Guila ^a   De Vries, Jeroen J ^a   Clark, Christopher M ^a   Newberg, Andrew B ^a   Alavi, Abass ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISION; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; WORD RECOGNITION;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 1642421778     PISSN: 13803395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1076/jcen.26.1.11.23931     Document Type: Article

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