Posterior cortical atrophy and Alzheimer's disease: A meta-analytic review of neuropsychological and brain morphometry studies

Brain Imaging and Behavior

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 353-361

  Alves, Jorge ^a   Soares, José Miguel ^a,b   Sampaio, Adriana ^a   Gonçalves, Óscar F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease (AD); Effect Size Signed Differential Mapping (ES SDM); Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); Meta analysis; Posterior cortical atrophy; Voxel based morphometry (VBM)

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX ATROPHY; BRAIN SIZE; COGNITION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EPISODIC MEMORY; GRAY MATTER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; MORPHOMETRICS; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; OCCIPITAL GYRUS; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TEMPORAL GYRUS; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL MEMORY;

AGNOSIA; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ATROPHY; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMORBIDITY; HUMANS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREVALENCE;

EID: 84887604005     PISSN: 19317557     EISSN: 19317565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11682-013-9236-1     Document Type: Article

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