Written language impairments in primary progressive aphasia: A reflection of damage to central semantic and phonological processes

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 261-275

  Henry, Maya L ^a   Beeson, Pélagie M ^b   Alexander, Gene E ^b   Rapcsak, Steven Z ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c SOUTHERN ARIZONA VA HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; PHONETICS; PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE APHASIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SEMANTICS; SPELLING; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WRITTEN LANGUAGE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APHASIA, PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE; ATROPHY; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TESTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS, UNMYELINATED; NEUROIMAGING; ORGAN SIZE; READING; SPEECH;

EID: 84555195036     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00153     Document Type: Article

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