Differential neuropsychological patterns of frontal variant frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer's disease in a study of diagnostic concordance

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1495-1504

  Giovagnoli, Anna R ^a   Erbetta, Alessandra ^a   Reati, Fabiola ^a   Bugiani, Orso ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF NEUROSURGERY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dementia; Executive functions; Frontal lobe; Memory; Temporal lobe

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HUMAN; INTELLECT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; POST HOC ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAMPLE SIZE; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ATROPHY; ATTENTION; BRAIN; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DEMENTIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL PROCESSES; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 42749096111     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2007.12.023     Document Type: Article

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