Isolated executive impairment and associated frontal neuropathology

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 360-367

  Johnson, Julene K ^a,d   Vogt, Brent A ^b   Kim, Ronald ^c   Cotman, Carl W ^c   Head, Elizabeth ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b State University of New York Upstate Medical University: College of Medicine   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amyloid peptides; Cingulate gyrus; Cortical neurofibrillary tangles; Isolated executive impairment; Mild cognitive impairment

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN[1-42];

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN CELL; BRAIN REGION; CASE REPORT; CINGULATE GYRUS; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LANGUAGE; MEMORY; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; SENILE PLAQUE; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

AGED; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CADAVER; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLES; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SENILE PLAQUES;

EID: 2642561085     PISSN: 14208008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000078183     Document Type: Conference Paper

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