Akinetopsia in the posterior cortical variant of alzheimer disease

Neurology

Volumn 73, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 731-732

  Tsai, Po Heng ^a   Mendez, Mario F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VA GREATER LOS ANGELES HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMFEBUTAMONE; DONEPEZIL; MEMANTINE;

ADULT; AGED; AKINETOPSIA; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMNESIA; APRAXIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POLYARTHRITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL DISORDER;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ATROPHY; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; SPACE PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 70349303809     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e3181b59c07     Document Type: Article

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