Frontotemporal dementia as a frontostriatal disorder: Neostriatal morphology as a biomarker and structural basis for an endophenotype

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 422-434

  Looi, Jeffrey C L ^a,b   Walterfang, Mark ^c   Velakoulis, Dennis ^c   MacFarlane, Matthew D ^a   Svensson, Leif Anders ^d   Wahlund, Lars Olof ^b  

^a CANBERRA HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

biomarkers; Dementia; neuroimaging; striatum

Indexed keywords

AGOUTI RELATED PROTEIN; AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN[1-42]; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CORTICOTROPIN; EOTAXIN 3; FAS ANTIGEN; INTERLEUKIN 17; PROGRANULIN; TAR DNA BINDING PROTEIN; TAU PROTEIN; UBIQUITIN;

BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BRAIN CIRCULUS ARTERIOSUS; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITION; EMOTION; ENDOPHENOTYPE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; NEOSTRIATUM; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL CORTEX; PROGRESSIVE NONFLUENT APHASIA; PUTAMEN; REVIEW; SEMANTIC DEMENTIA; THALAMUS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CORPUS STRIATUM; FRONTAL LOBE; NERVE TRACT; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CORPUS STRIATUM; ENDOPHENOTYPES; FRONTAL LOBE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROIMAGING;

EID: 84865290767     PISSN: 00048674     EISSN: 14401614     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0004867411432076     Document Type: Review

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