The neural basis of syntactic deficits in primary progressive aphasia

Brain and Language

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 190-198

  Wilson, Stephen M ^a,b   Galantucci, Sebastiano ^b,c   Tartaglia, Maria Carmela ^b   Gorno Tempini, Maria Luisa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor imaging; Functional MRI; Primary progressive aphasia; Syntax; Voxel based morphometry

Indexed keywords

ARCUATE FASCICULUS; ARTICLE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LANGUAGE TEST; LEFT INFERIOR FRONTAL CORTEX; NERVE TRACT; POSTERIOR PERISYLVIAN CORTEX; PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE APHASIA; SUPERIOR LONGITUDINAL BUNDLE; SUPRASYLVIAN GYRUS; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WHITE MATTER LESION;

APHASIA, PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE; ATROPHY; BRAIN MAPPING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; NERVE NET; NEUROIMAGING; SYNAPSES; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 84865541309     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2012.04.005     Document Type: Article

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