Dementia and painting in patients from different cultural backgrounds

European Neurology

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 224-229

  Midorikawa, Akira ^a,b   Fukutake, Toshio ^c   Kawamura, Mitsuru ^b  

^a CHUO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SHOWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KAMEDA MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cultural differences; Dementia; Frontotemporal lobar degeneration; Painting; Semantic dementia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAINTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL LOBE; WHITE MATTER;

APTITUDE; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BRAIN; CREATIVENESS; CULTURE; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PAINTINGS;

EID: 50249178194     PISSN: 00143022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000151697     Document Type: Article

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