Clinical and neuropathological findings in a patient with familial Alzheimer disease showing a mutation in the PSEN1 gene

Neuropathology

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 199-203

  Niwa, Atsushi ^a   Matsuo, Ko ^a   Shindo, Akihiro ^a   Yata, Kenichiro ^a   Shiraishi, Taizo ^a   Tomimoto, Hidekazu ^a  

^a MIE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cerebral amyloid angiopathy; Cotton wool plaque; Familial Alzheimer disease; Parkinsonism; Presenilin 1 mutation

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; PRESENILIN 1;

ADULT; AGGRESSION; AGITATION; AGRAPHIA; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANOREXIA; APRAXIA; ARTICLE; BRADYKINESIA; BULIMIA; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEMENTIA; DISORIENTATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GLIOSIS; HEADACHE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; NEOCORTEX; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPIL THREAD; PARKINSONISM; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; RIGIDITY; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; TENDON REFLEX; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TREMOR;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; PRESENILIN-1;

EID: 84875803331     PISSN: 09196544     EISSN: 14401789     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1789.2012.01340.x     Document Type: Article

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