The frontal-anatomic specificity of design fluency repetitions and their diagnostic relevance for behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia

Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 834-844

  Possin, Katherine L ^a   Chester, Serana K ^a   Laluz, Victor ^a   Bostrom, Alan ^a   Rosen, Howard J ^a   Miller, Bruce L ^a   Kramer, Joel H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dementia; Executive function; Neuropsychology; Orbitofrontal; Perseveration; Process approach

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865968670     PISSN: 13556177     EISSN: 14697661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1355617712000604     Document Type: Article

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