Using pictures and words to understand recognition memory deterioration in amnestic mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease: A review

Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 687-694

  Ally, Brandon A ^a,b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Episodic memory; Familiarity; Object recognition; Recollection; Semantic memory

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; COGNITIVE THERAPY; DECISION MAKING; DISEASE COURSE; EPISODIC MEMORY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGERY; MEDIAL TEMPORAL LOBE; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDER; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATTERN RECOGNITION; RECALL; RECOGNITION MEMORY; REVIEW; SEMANTICS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VISUAL INFORMATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMNESIA; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HUMANS; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 84870509501     PISSN: 15284042     EISSN: 15346293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11910-012-0310-7     Document Type: Review

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