Primary progressive aphasia accompanied by environmental sound agnosia: A neuropsychological, MRI and PET study

Psychiatry Research - Neuroimaging

Volumn 146, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 191-197

  Uttner, Ingo ^a   Mottaghy, Felix M ^a   Schreiber, Herbert ^b   Riecker, Axel ^a   Ludolph, Albert C ^a   Kassubek, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b Praxis für Neurologie ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Frontotemporal dementia; Nonverbal sound recognition; Slowly progressive aphasia

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGNOSIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CASE REPORT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE APHASIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND;

AGED; APHASIA; AUDITORY PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; BRAIN; DEMENTIA; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 33645884429     PISSN: 09254927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2005.12.003     Document Type: Article

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