Neural activities during affective processing in people with Alzheimer's disease

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 706-715

  Lee, Tatia M C ^a,b   Sun, Delin ^a   Leung, Mei Kei ^a   Chu, Leung Wing ^a   Keysers, Christian ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Dementia; Emotional facial expressions; Mirror neuron system

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEGENERATION; BRAIN REGION; CHINESE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIAL NERVE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTION; EMPATHY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MOTOR SYSTEM; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL STIMULATION; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

EID: 84870501609     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: 15581497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2012.06.018     Document Type: Article

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