Getting lost in Alzheimer's disease: A break in the mental frame syncing

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 416-421

  Serino, Silvia ^a   Riva, Giuseppe ^a,b  

^a ISTITUTO AUXOLOGICO ITALIANO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISORIENTATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MENTAL FUNCTION; NEUROIMAGING; NEURONAVIGATION; ORIENTATION; RETROSPLENIAL CORTEX; SPATIAL MEMORY;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN; COGNITION DISORDERS; CONFUSION; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; ORIENTATION; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 84875401235     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: 15322777     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2012.12.031     Document Type: Article

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