Alexithymia in neurodegenerative disease

Neurocase

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 242-250

  Sturm, Virginia E ^a   Levenson, Robert W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alexithymia; Emotion; Gray matter volumes; Neurodegenerative disease; Social behavior

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALEXITHYMIA; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; APATHY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORTICOBASAL DEGENERATION; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; NEUROPSYCHIATRIC INVENTORY; PRECUNEUS; PROGRESSIVE SUPRANUCLEAR PALSY; RATING SCALE; SEMANTIC DEMENTIA; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; TORONTO ALEXITHYMIA SCALE 20;

AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES;

EID: 79959305092     PISSN: 13554794     EISSN: 14653656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13554794.2010.532503     Document Type: Article

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