Comparative semantic profiles in semantic dementia and Alzheimer's disease

Brain

Volumn 136, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 2497-2509

  Libon, David J ^a   Rascovsky, Katya ^b   Powers, John ^b   Irwin, David J ^b   Boller, Ashley ^b   Weinberg, Danielle ^b   McMillan, Corey T ^b   Grossman, Murray ^b  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Category specific; Semantic dementia; Semantic memory; Temporal lobe

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANGULAR GYRUS; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION CORTEX; BRAIN ATROPHY; COLOR; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUSIFORM GYRUS; GREY MATTER ATROPHY; HUMAN; INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; INFERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; KNOWLEDGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRECUNEUS; PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE APHASIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SEMANTIC VARIANT PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE APHASIA; SIGNAL DETECTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISION; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

EID: 84880939907     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awt165     Document Type: Article

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