Frontal assessment battery and brain perfusion imaging in Alzheimer's disease

International Psychogeriatrics

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 994-1001

  Oshima, Etsuko ^a   Terada, Seishi ^a   Sato, Shuhei ^a   Ikeda, Chikako ^a   Nagao, Shigeto ^a   Takeda, Naoya ^a   Honda, Hajime ^a   Yokota, Osamu ^a   Uchitomi, Yosuke ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease (AD); cerebral blood flow (CBF); frontal assessment battery (FAB); single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT); statistical parametric mapping (SPM)

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE ETHYL ESTER TC 99M;

ADDENBROOKE COGNITIVE EXAMINATION; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; BRAIN PERFUSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FRONTAL ASSESSMENT BATTERY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NEUROPSYCHIATRIC INVENTORY SUBSCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SUPERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 84860200946     PISSN: 10416102     EISSN: 1741203X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1041610211002481     Document Type: Article

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