The orbitofrontal cortex is involved in emotional enhancement of memory: Evidence from the dementias

Brain

Volumn 136, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2992-3003

  Kumfor, Fiona ^a,b   Irish, Muireann ^a,b   Hodges, John R ^a,b   Piguet, Olivier ^a,b  

^a NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; emotion; episodic memory; frontotemporal dementia; orbitofrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; CEREBELLUM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; EMOTION; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; FORCED CHOICE METHOD; FRONTAL OPERCULUM; FRONTAL VARIANT FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; ORBITAL CORTEX; POSTCENTRAL GYRUS; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PRECUNEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; SEMANTIC DEMENTIA; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; VISUAL MEMORY; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 84884852264     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awt185     Document Type: Article

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