A case of semantic variant primary progressive aphasia with severe insular atrophy

Neurocase

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 450-456

  Chow, T W ^a,b   Links, K A ^a   Masterman, D L ^c   Mendez, M F ^d   Vinters, H V ^e  

^a ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c GENENTECH INC   (United States)

^d VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Frontotemporal dementia; Insula; MRI; PET; SPECT

Indexed keywords

CITALOPRAM; CLOMIPRAMINE; DONEPEZIL; ESCITALOPRAM; HALOPERIDOL; OLANZAPINE; PAROXETINE; QUETIAPINE; SERTRALINE; TRAZODONE; VALPROIC ACID;

ADULT; AMNESIA; ANISOCORIA; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; ATROPHY; AUTOPSY; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CASE REPORT; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERHIDROSIS; INSULA; INSULAR ATROPHY; MALE; MORNING DOSAGE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PARKINSONISM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE APHASIA; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STEREOTYPY; STOMACH PAIN; TREMOR; WORD LIST RECALL;

APHASIA, PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE; ATROPHY; AUTOPSY; BEHAVIORAL SYMPTOMS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SEMANTICS;

EID: 84871100438     PISSN: 13554794     EISSN: 14653656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13554794.2011.627343     Document Type: Article

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