Associative memory deficits in mild cognitive impairment: The role of hippocampal formation

NeuroImage

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1331-1342

  Atienza, M ^a   Atalaia Silva, K C ^a   Gonzalez Escamilla, G ^a   Gil Neciga, E ^b   Suarez Gonzalez, A ^b   Cantero, J L ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD PABLO DE OLAVIDE   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DEL ROCÍO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Associative memory; Entorhinal cortex; Hippocampus; Mild cognitive impairment; Probabilistic cytoarchitectonic maps; Tensor based morphometry

Indexed keywords

AGED; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; MORPHOMETRICS; NEUROIMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS;

AGED; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS;

EID: 79960225361     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.05.047     Document Type: Article

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