What wires together dies together: Verbs, actions and neurodegeneration in motor neuron disease

Cortex

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 936-944

  Bak, Thomas H ^a,b,c   Chandran, Siddharthan ^b,c  

^a Department of Psychology ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Actions; Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS); Embodied cognition; Language; Motor Neuron Disease (MND); Neurodegeneration; Verbs

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARM; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CORTICOBASAL DEGENERATION; DEMENTIA; DISEASE COURSE; FASCICULATION; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HUMAN; LEG; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MOTONEURON; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOTOR SYSTEM; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE FIBER; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEUROSCIENCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERCEPTION; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PLASTICITY; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PROGRESSIVE NONFLUENT APHASIA; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; RISK FACTOR; SUPRASYLVIAN GYRUS; SYNAPSE; THORAX; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; WEAKNESS; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84861887510     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 19738102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2011.07.008     Document Type: Article

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