Neuroanatomical correlates of impaired decision-making and facial emotion recognition in early Parkinson's disease

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1162-1171

  Ibarretxe Bilbao, Naroa ^a,b,c   Junque, Carme ^a,b,c   Tolosa, Eduardo ^a,b   Marti, Maria Jose ^a,b   Valldeoriola, Francesc ^a,b   Bargallo, Nuria ^a,b   Zarei, Mojtaba ^d  

^a HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

^b INSTITUT D INVESTIGACIONS BIOMÈDIQUES AUGUST PI I SUNYER IDIBAPS   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Gambling task; Magnetic resonance imaging; Orbitofrontal cortex; Voxel based morphometry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEGENERATION; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING IMPAIRMENT; FACIAL EMOTION RECOGNITION IMPAIRMENT; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORBITAL CORTEX; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOLUMETRY;

AMYGDALA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DECISION MAKING; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OLFACTORY PATHWAYS; ORGAN SIZE; PARKINSON DISEASE; PATIENT SELECTION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL PERCEPTION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 70349203010     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2009.06892.x     Document Type: Article

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