Confabulations on episodic and semantic memory questions are associated with different neurologic backgrounds in Alzheimer Disease

Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 81-88

  Lee, Eunjoo ^a   Kinomura, Shigeo ^b   Meguro, Kenichi ^c   Akanuma, Kyoko ^c   Meguro, Mitsue ^c   Fukuda, Hiroshi ^b  

^a Osaki Tajiri SKIP Center   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

temp Alzheimer disease; Confabulation; Delusion; MRI; SPECT

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; ATROPHY; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFABULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELUSION; EPISODIC MEMORY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MORPHOMETRICS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARAMETRIC TEST; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SCREENING; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; BRAIN MAPPING; DEFENSE MECHANISM; IMAGE PROCESSING; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; SCINTISCANNING;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION DISORDERS; DELUSIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; REPRESSION; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 68349140238     PISSN: 15433633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNN.0b013e3181a7226c     Document Type: Article

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