Patterns of regional brain hypometabolism associated with knowledge of semantic features and categories in alzheimer's disease

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2138-2151

  Zahn, Roland ^a,b   Garrard, Peter ^c,d   Talazko, Jochen ^a   Gondan, Matthias ^e   Bubrowski, Philine ^a   Juengling, Freimut ^f   Slawik, Helen ^a   Dykierek, Petra ^a   Koester, Bernd ^a   Hull, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTIC MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; BRAIN MAPPING; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEMANTICS;

EID: 33845473472     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2006.18.12.2138     Document Type: Article

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