Syntactic comprehension deficits are associated with MRI white matter alterations in dementia

Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 542-551

  Giovannetti, Tania ^a   Hopkins, Mary W ^b   Crawford, Jaclyn ^c   Bettcher, Brianne Magouirk ^a   Schmidt, Kara S ^d   Libon, David J ^d  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MERCY COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UMDNJ School of Osteopathic Medicine   (United States)

^d DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Aphasia; Comprehension; Subcortical dementia; Vascular dementia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEMENTIA; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEARNING DISORDER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SYNTACTIC COMPREHENSION DEFICIT; WHITE MATTER; WORKING MEMORY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN; CEREBRAL VENTRICLES; COMPREHENSION; DEMENTIA, VASCULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; READING; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 46649106333     PISSN: 13556177     EISSN: 14697661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1355617708080715     Document Type: Article

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