Anatomical and functional alterations in semantic dementia: A voxel-based MRI and PET study

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 28, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1904-1913

  Desgranges, Béatrice ^a   Matuszewski, Vanessa ^a   Piolino, Pascale ^a,b   Chételat, Gaël ^a   Mézenge, Florence ^a   Landeau, Brigitte ^a   de la Sayette, Vincent ^a,c   Belliard, Serge ^d   Eustache, Francis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE CAEN   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^c CHU CÔTE DE NACRE   (France)

^d PONTCHAILLOU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Magnetic resonance imaging; Partial volume effects; Positron emission tomography; Semantic dementia; Semantic memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; EPISODIC MEMORY; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; MEMORY DISORDER; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORBITAL CORTEX; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTIC MEMORY; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AGED; BRAIN; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 35148880756     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2006.08.006     Document Type: Article

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