Distinct anatomical subtypes of the behavioural variant of frontotemporal dementia: A cluster analysis study

Brain

Volumn 132, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2932-2946

  Whitwell, Jennifer L ^a   Przybelski, Scott A ^a   Weigand, Stephen D ^a   Ivnik, Robert J ^a   Vemuri, Prashanthi ^a   Gunter, Jeffrey L ^a   Senjem, Matthew L ^a   Shiung, Maria M ^a   Boeve, Bradley F ^a   Knopman, David S ^a   Parisi, Joseph E ^a   Dickson, Dennis W ^b   Petersen, Ronald C ^a   Jack, Clifford R ^a   Josephs, Keith A ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrophy; Behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia; Cluster analysis; Voxel based morphometry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COGNITION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FRONTAL VARIANT FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; INSULA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX RATIO; TEMPORAL LOBE; VOLUMETRY;

EID: 70350683356     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awp232     Document Type: Article

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