Regional brain atrophy and impaired decision making on the Balloon Analog Risk Task in behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia

Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 59-67

  Strenziok, Maren ^b   Pulaski, Sarah ^a   Krueger, Frank ^b,c   Zamboni, Giovanna ^e   Clawson, Deborah ^a   Grafman, Jordan ^c,d  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA   (United States)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^d KESSLER FOUNDATION   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

BART; decision making; frontotemporal dementia; orbitofrontal cortex; stimulus reinforcement learning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BALLOON ANALOG RISK TASK; BRAIN ATROPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FRONTAL VARIANT FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; IMPAIRED DECISION MAKING; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORBITAL CORTEX; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFORCEMENT; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

AGED; ATROPHY; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 79959975905     PISSN: 15433633     EISSN: 15370887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNN.0b013e3182255a7c     Document Type: Article

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