Face-selective hyper-animacy and hyper-familiarity misperception in a patient with moderate Alzheimer's disease

Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Van den Stock, Jan ^a,b,c   de Gelder, Beatrice ^a,b,c   Van Laere, Koen ^a,b,c   Vandenbulcke, Mathieu ^a,b,c  

^a KU LEUVEN UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; DELUSION; FACE; HUMAN; LETTER; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL STIMULATION;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGNOSIA; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; HUMANS;

EID: 84894052603     PISSN: 08950172     EISSN: 15457222     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.neuropsych.12120390     Document Type: Letter

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