Naming impairment in Alzheimer's disease is associated with left anterior temporal lobe atrophy

NeuroImage

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 348-355

  Domoto Reilly, Kimiko ^a   Sapolsky, Daisy ^a   Brickhouse, Michael ^a   Dickerson, Bradford C ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Anterior temporal lobe; Cerebral cortex; Language; Magnetic resonance imaging; Semantic memory

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANTERIOR TEMPORAL LOBE ATROPHY; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPISODIC MEMORY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PARIETAL CORTEX; PICTURE NAMING TEST; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SIGNAL DETECTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ATROPHY; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDERS; NAMES; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 84864408230     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.06.018     Document Type: Article

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