Autobiographical memory and patterns of brain atrophy in frontotemporal lobar degeneration

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1839-1853

  McKinnon, Margaret C ^a,b   Nica, Elena I ^c   Sengdy, Pheth ^c   Kovacevic, Natasa ^c,d   Moscovitch, Morris ^c,d   Freedman, Morris ^c,d,g   Miller, Bruce L ^d   Black, Sandra E ^c,d,e   Levine, Brian ^c,d,f,h  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b St Joseph's Healthcare ^*

^c BAYCREST CENTRE FOR GERIATRIC CARE   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^g University Health Network

^h ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMNESIA; APHASIA; ARTICLE; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEGENERATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMENTIA; DISEASE COURSE; EPISODIC MEMORY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FOLLOW UP; FRONTAL LOBE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; FRONTOTEMPORAL LOBAR DEGENERATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERVIEW; LIFESPAN; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROIMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTIC MEMORY; TEMPORAL LOBE;

AGED; ATROPHY; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DEMENTIA; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 50849101474     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2008.20126     Document Type: Article

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