Regional hypometabolism related to language disturbance in Alzheimer's disease

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 68-73

  Hirono, Nobutsugu ^a   Mori, Etsuro ^a   Ishii, Kazunari ^a   Ikejiri, Yoshitaka ^a   Imamura, Toru ^a   Shimomura, Tatsuo ^a   Ikeda, Manabu ^a   Yamashita, Hikari ^a   Takatsuki, Yoko ^a   Sasaki, Masahiro ^a  

^a Hyogo Inst Aging Brain Cogn D   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Language disorders; Positron emission tomography

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; GLUCOSE;

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; APHASIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN METABOLISM; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; HUMAN; HYPERMETABOLISM; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METABOLIC RATE; PARIETAL LOBE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 6844258843     PISSN: 14208008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000017025     Document Type: Article

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