Differentiating the roles of the hippocampus and perirhinal cortex in processes beyond long-term declarative memory: A double dissociation in dementia

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 19, 2006, Pages 5198-5203

  Lee, Andy C H ^a   Buckley, Mark J ^b   Gaffan, David ^b   Emery, Tina ^a   Hodges, John R ^a,c   Graham, Kim S ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Amnesia; Discrimination; Memory; Perception; Semantic dementia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN CORTEX; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISSOCIATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LONG TERM MEMORY; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL ORIENTATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; FEMALE; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; VISION;

AGED; DEMENTIA; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33646926960     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3157-05.2006     Document Type: Article

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