Structural correlates of apathy in Alzheimer's disease

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 91-97

  Apostolova, Liana G ^a,b   Akopyan, Gohar G ^a   Partiali, Negar ^a   Steiner, Calen A ^a   Dutton, Rebecca A ^a   Hayashi, Kiralee M ^a   Dinov, Ivo D ^a   Toga, Arthur W ^a   Cummings, Jeffrey L ^a   Thompson, Paul M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Alzheimer's Disease Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Apathy; Atrophy; Cingulate gyrus; Neuropsychiatric Inventory

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; APATHY; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN REGION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ATROPHY; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTIVATION; REFERENCE VALUES; STATISTICS;

EID: 34447626606     PISSN: 14208008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000103914     Document Type: Article

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