Spatial navigation impairment is proportional to right hippocampal volume

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 2590-2594

  Nedelska, Zuzana ^a,b   Andel, Ross ^b,c   Laczó, Jan ^a,b   Vlcek, Kamil ^b,d   Horinek, Daniel ^b,e   Lisy, Jiri ^a   Sheardova, Katerina ^b   Bureš, Jan ^d   Hort, Jakub ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MOTOL   (Czech Republic)

^b ST ANNE S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^e PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; BRAIN SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MALE; MAZE TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HIPPOCAMPUS; SPATIAL NAVIGATION IMPAIRMENT;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 84857133526     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1121588109     Document Type: Article

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