The role of the uncinate fasciculus in memory and emotional recognition in amnestic mild cognitive impairment

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 432-439

  Fujie, Saori ^a   Namiki, Chihiro ^a   Nishi, Hiroko ^a   Yamada, Makiko ^b   Miyata, Jun ^a   Sakata, Daisuke ^a   Sawamoto, Nobukatsu ^a   Fukuyama, Hidenao ^a   Hayashi, Takuji ^a   Murai, Toshiya ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Diffusion tensor imaging; Emotional facial recognition; Mild cognitive impairment; Tractography; Uncinate fasciculus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EMOTION; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERBAL MEMORY;

AGED; AMNESIA; ANISOTROPY; COGNITION DISORDERS; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; EDUCATION; EMOTIONS; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 54849406051     PISSN: 14208008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000165381     Document Type: Article

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