Neural substrates of socioemotional self-awareness in neurodegenerative disease

Brain and Behavior

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 201-214

  Sollberger, Marc ^a,b,c,d   Rosen, Howard J ^a,b   Shany Ur, Tal ^a,b   Ullah, Jerin ^a,b   Stanley, Christine M ^a,b   Laluz, Victor ^a,b   Weiner, Michael W ^b,e   Wilson, Stephen M ^f   Miller, Bruce L ^a,b   Rankin, Katherine P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^d Felix Platter Spital   (Switzerland)

^e VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f Magnetic Resonance Imaging Unit San Francisco Veterans Affairs Hospital ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Affective perspective taking; Dementia; Empathy; Infero lateral temporal cortex; Neurodegeneration; Semantic self knowledge; Unawareness; Voxel based morphometry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN SIZE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; EMOTION; EMPATHIC CONCERN; FEMALE; FRONTAL VARIANT FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; FUSIFORM GYRUS; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL REACTIVITY INDEX; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORBITAL CORTEX; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; POSTERIOR INSULA; PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE APHASIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL ASPECT; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; AGED; AWARENESS; EMPATHY; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SELF EVALUATION; TEMPORAL LOBE;

AGED; AWARENESS; EMPATHY; FEMALE; FRONTOTEMPORAL LOBAR DEGENERATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SELF-ASSESSMENT; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 84896857265     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21623279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/brb3.211     Document Type: Article

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