Patterns of Brain Atrophy in Clinical Variants of Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders

Volumn 35, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 34-50

  Lu, Po H ^a,j   Mendez, Mario F ^a,b   Lee, Grace J ^a   Leow, Alex D ^a,c,e   Lee, Hyun Woo ⁱ   Shapira, Jill ^a   Jimenez, Elvira ^a,b   Boeve, Bradley B ^f   Caselli, Richard J ^g   Graff Radford, Neill R ^h   Jack, Clifford R ^f   Kramer, Joel H ^d   Miller, Bruce L ^d   Bartzokis, George ^a   Thompson, Paul M ^a   Knopman, David S ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VA GREATER LOS ANGELES HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^c Community Psychiatry Associates ^*  (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^f MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^g MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^h MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

ⁱ MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^j Mary S Easton Center for Alzheimer's Disease Research   (United States)

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Author keywords

Frontotemporal dementia; Longitudinal study; Magnetic resonance imaging; Primary progressive aphasia; Tensor based morphometry; White matter

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; APATHY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN ATROPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; EUPHORIA; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRONTAL LOBE; FRONTAL VARIANT FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NEUROIMAGING; NONFLUENT VARIANT FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTIC VARIANT FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; SOMATIC HYPERMUTATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; WHITE MATTER; WHITE MATTER LESION; BEHAVIOR ASSESSMENT; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROGRESSIVE NONFLUENT APHASIA; PROTOCOL COMPLIANCE; SEMANTIC DEMENTIA; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TEMPORAL LOBE; TENSOR BASED MORPHOMETRY;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; ATROPHY; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; COGNITION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FRONTOTEMPORAL LOBAR DEGENERATION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LANGUAGE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84872072667     PISSN: 14208008     EISSN: 14219824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000345523     Document Type: Article

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