Paleoneurology: Neurodegenerative diseases are age-related diseases of specific brain regions recently developed by homo sapiens

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 788-801

  Ghika, J ^a  

^a Division of Neurology   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN; AGNOSIA; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMNESIA; APATHY; APHASIA; APRAXIA; ARTICLE; ASPERGER SYNDROME; ATROPHY; AUTISM; AUTOMATISM; BABINSKI REFLEX; BASAL GANGLION; BEHAVIOR; BIPOLAR DISORDER; BODY POSTURE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CEREBELLUM; CHOREA; CINGULATE GYRUS; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; CONFABULATION; CORPUS STRIATUM; CRYING; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DELUSION; DEMENTIA; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISORIENTATION; DRIVE; DYSAUTONOMIA; DYSTONIA; EMOTION; EMPATHY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EYE; GAIT; GENETICS; GESTURE; GROOMING; HALLUCINATION; HAND; HAZARD; HUMAN; IMPULSIVENESS; INCLUSION BODY MYOSITIS; LANGUAGE; LARYNX; LEWY BODY; LOCOMOTION; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL INSTABILITY; MOOD DISORDER; MOTONEURON; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; NEUROLOGY; NIGRONEOSTRIATAL SYSTEM; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PAGET BONE DISEASE; PALEONEUROLOGY; PARIETAL LOBE; PARKINSONISM; PERSONAL HYGIENE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REM SLEEP; RETINA MACULA DEGENERATION; SCRATCHING; SELF MONITORING; SLEEP DISORDER; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SPEECH; STANDING; STEREOTYPY; SUCKING; TEMPORAL LOBE; TREMOR; VISION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION; YAWNING;

AGING; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASES; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOLUTION; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; NEUROLOGY; PALEOPATHOLOGY;

HOMO SAPIENS; MORIA; SIMIAE;

EID: 52949128759     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2008.05.034     Document Type: Article

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