Structural anatomy of empathy in neurodegenerative disease

Brain

Volumn 129, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2945-2956

  Rankin, Katherine P ^a,b   Gorno Tempini, Maria Luisa ^a   Allison, Stephen C ^a   Stanley, Christine M ^a   Glenn, Shenly ^a   Weiner, Michael W ^a   Miller, Bruce L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UCSF Department of Neurology   (United States)

Author keywords

Dementia; Empathy; Frontotemporal lobar degeneration; Temporal pole; VBM

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CINGULATE GYRUS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CORPUS STRIATUM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORTICOBASAL DEGENERATION; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DEMENTIA; EMOTION; EMPATHY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; FRONTOTEMPORAL LOBAR DEGENERATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MORPHOMETRICS; NEUROANATOMY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSIVE SUPRANUCLEAR PALSY; SCORING SYSTEM; SEMANTICS; SOCIAL INTERACTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DEMENTIA; EMPATHY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SUPRANUCLEAR PALSY, PROGRESSIVE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 33750594405     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awl254     Document Type: Article

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