The relationship of topographical memory performance to regional neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue JULY, 2012, Pages

  Pengas, George ^a,c   Williams, Guy B ^a   Acosta Cabronero, Julio ^a,c,d   Hong, Young T ^a   Izquierdo Garcia, David ^a,e   Fryer, Tim D ^a   Hodges, John R ^b   Nestor, Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c PORTSMOUTH HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^d The Technology Partnership Plc   (United Kingdom)

^e Translational and Molecular Imaging Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's; Mri; Multivariate; Pet; Retrosplenial cortex; Support vector; Topographical memory

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE; GLUCOSE;

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN METABOLISM; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; GRAY MATTER; HIPPOCAMPAL DEGENERATION; HUMAN; LEARNING; LEARNING TEST; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDER; NERVE DEGENERATION; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; PARIETAL CORTEX; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; RETROSPLENIAL CORTEX; RHOMBENCEPHALIC ISTHMUS; SCORING SYSTEM; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; THALAMUS DORSOMEDIAL NUCLEUS; VIRTUAL ROUTE LEARNING TEST; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84865085693     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16634365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2012.00017     Document Type: Article

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