Patterns of brain activity during a semantic task differentiate normal aging from early Alzheimer's disease

Psychiatry Research - Neuroimaging

Volumn 173, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 218-227

  McGeown, William Jonathan ^a   Shanks, Michael Fraser ^a   Forbes McKay, Katrina Elaine ^b   Venneri, Annalena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^b ROBERT GORDON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Default mode; Dementia; Early diagnosis; fMRI; Language; Memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SEMANTIC DIFFERENTIAL METHOD; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 68949215492     PISSN: 09254927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2008.10.005     Document Type: Article

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