Brain atrophy in primary progressive aphasia involves the cholinergic basal forebrain and Ayala's nucleus

Psychiatry Research - Neuroimaging

Volumn 221, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 187-194

  Teipel, Stefan J ^a,b   Flatz, Wilhelm ^c   Ackl, Nibal ^d   Grothe, Michel ^a,b   Kilimann, Ingo ^a,b   Bokde, Arun L W ^e   Grinberg, Lea ^f   Amaro, Edson ^f   Kljajevic, Vanja ^b   Alho, Eduardo ^f,g   Knels, Christina ^h   Ebert, Anne ⁱ   Heinsen, Helmut ^g   Danek, Adrian ^d  

^a ROSTOCK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Germany)

^b GERMAN CENTER FOR NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES DZNE   (Germany)

^c LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^e TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^h FRESENIUS UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cholinergic system; Diagnosis; Language; Nucleus subputaminalis; Post mortem MRI; Primary progressive aphasia

Indexed keywords

CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; DIAGNOSIS; LANGUAGE; NUCLEUS SUBPUTAMINALIS; POST-MORTEM MRI; PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE APHASIA;

AGED; APHASIA, PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE; ATROPHY; BRAIN; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHOLINERGIC FIBERS; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROSENCEPHALON; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 84894313205     PISSN: 09254927     EISSN: 18727506     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2013.10.003     Document Type: Article

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