Altered brain response for semantic knowledge in Alzheimer's disease

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 392-404

  Wierenga, Christina E ^a,b   Stricker, Nikki H ^c,d   McCauley, Ashley ^c   Simmons, Alan ^b   Jak, Amy J ^a,b   Chang, Yu Ling ^b   Nation, Daniel A ^b   Bangen, Katherine J ^b   Salmon, David P ^e   Bondi, Mark W ^a,b  

^a VA SAN DIEGO HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Category specific deficit; Dementia; FMRI; Language; Semantic memory; Word retrieval

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL GYRUS; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL FUNCTION; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SEMANTIC MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; THALAMUS;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; KNOWLEDGE; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MENTAL RECALL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SEMANTICS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79551493474     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.12.011     Document Type: Article

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