Structural neuroimaging of social cognition in progressive non-fluent aphasia and behavioral variant of frontotemporal dementia

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue AUG, 2013, Pages

  Couto, Blas ^a,b   Manes, Facundo ^a   Montañés, Patricia ^c   Matallana, Diana ^c   Reyes, Pablo ^c   Velasquez, Marcela ^a   Yoris, Adrián ^a   Baez, Sandra ^a,b   Ibáñez, Agustin ^a,b,d  

^a FAVALORO UNIVERSITY   (Argentina)

^b Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^c PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD JAVERIANA   (Colombia)

^d UNIVERSIDAD DIEGO PORTALES   (Chile)

Author keywords

bvFTD; Fronto insulo temporal network; PNFA; Social context network model; Theory of mind; Voxel based morphometry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FACIES; FEMALE; FRONTAL VARIANT FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; INSULA; MALE; MENTAL CAPACITY; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; ORBITAL CORTEX; PROGRESSIVE NONFLUENT APHASIA; RECOGNITION; SOCIAL COGNITION; TEMPORAL CORTEX; THEORY OF MIND; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

EID: 84884680986     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00467     Document Type: Article

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