Nature versus nurture in frontotemporal lobar degeneration: The interaction of genetic background and education on brain damage

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 372-378

  Premi, E ^a   Garibotto, V ^b   Alberici, A ^a   Paghera, B ^a   Giubbini, R ^a   Padovani, A ^a   Borroni, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cognitive reserve; Frontotemporal dementia; Genetic loading; SPECT; Statistical parametric mapping

Indexed keywords

TECHNETIUM 99M;

AGED; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN PERFUSION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COGNITIVE RESERVE; DISEASE COURSE; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HEREDITY; HUMAN; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PRECUNEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SUPERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS;

AGED; BRAIN; COGNITIVE RESERVE; COHORT STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FRONTOTEMPORAL LOBAR DEGENERATION; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; TAU PROTEINS; TEMPORAL LOBE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 84863744896     PISSN: 14208008     EISSN: 14219824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000339366     Document Type: Article

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