Performance in specific language tasks correlates with regional volume changes in progressive aphasia

Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 203-211

  Amici, Serena ^a,d   Ogar, Jennifer ^a,b   Brambati, Simona Maria ^a   Miller, Bruce L ^a   Neuhaus, John ^a   Dronkers, Nina L ^b,c   Gorno Tempini, Maria Luisa ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VA NORTHERN CALIFORNIA HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^e NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aphasia; Confrontation naming; Language; Language fluency; Neuroimaging; Primary progressive aphasia; Repetition; Sentence comprehension; Voxel based morphometry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LANGUAGE TEST; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE APHASIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

AGED; ANOMIA; APHASIA, PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE; ATROPHY; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; PSYCHOMETRICS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 37349040704     PISSN: 15433633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNN.0b013e31815e6265     Document Type: Article

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