Topographical short-term memory differentiates Alzheimer's disease from frontotemporal lobar degeneration

Hippocampus

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1154-1169

  Bird, Chris M ^a   Chan, Dennis ^b   Hartley, Tom ^c   Pijnenburg, Yolande A ^d   Rossor, Martin N ^e   Burgess, Neil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL SUSSEX COUNTY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^d VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dementia; Hippocampus; Navigation; Neuropsychology; Spatial

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISORIENTATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL PATIENT; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERCEPTION; PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE APHASIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPATIAL MEMORY; TEMPORAL LOBE; WEATHER;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FRONTOTEMPORAL LOBAR DEGENERATION; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 78650359611     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: 10981063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.20715     Document Type: Article

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