Clinical, imaging and pathological correlates of a hereditary deficit in verb and action processing

Brain

Volumn 129, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 321-332

  Bak, Thomas H ^a,b   Yancopoulou, Despina ^b,c   Nestor, Peter J ^b   Xuereb, John H ^b   Spillantini, Maria G ^b,c   Pulvermüller, Friedemann ^a   Hodges, John R ^a,b  

^a MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dementia; Parkinsonism; Progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP); Selective verb impairment; Ubiquitin positive inclusions

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; UBIQUITIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN METABOLISM; CASE REPORT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEMENTIA; FRONTAL CORTEX; GENETIC DISORDER; HEREDITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROPATHOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSIVE SUPRANUCLEAR PALSY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; AGED; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INCLUSION BODIES; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEURITES; NEURONS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PEDIGREE; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SUPRANUCLEAR PALSY, PROGRESSIVE; TAU PROTEINS; UBIQUITIN; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 31544436927     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awh701     Document Type: Article

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