Beyond the temporal pole: Limbic memory circuit in the semantic variant of primary progressive aphasia

Brain

Volumn 137, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 2065-2076

  Tan, Rachel H ^a,b   Wong, Stephanie ^a   Kril, Jillian J ^c   Piguet, Olivier ^a,b,d   Hornberger, Michael ^a,b,d   Hodges, John R ^a,b,d   Halliday, Glenda M ^a,b  

^a NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d ARC CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE IN COGNITION AND ITS DISORDERS   (Australia)

Author keywords

frontotemporal dementia; Papez circuit; primary progressive aphasia; semantic dementia

Indexed keywords

TAR DNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN ATROPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; FRONTAL VARIANT FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LIMBIC CORTEX; LIMBIC MEMORY CIRCUIT; MALE; MAMMILLARY BODY; MEMORY DISORDER; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE DEGENERATION; PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE APHASIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL CORTEX; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN CORTEX ATROPHY; BRAIN DEGENERATION; BRAIN SIZE; CELL COUNTING; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL DEMENTIA RATING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; GRAY MATTER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN TISSUE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SEMANTIC DEMENTIA; THALAMUS ANTERIOR NUCLEUS; VOLUMETRY;

FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; PAPEZ CIRCUIT; PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE APHASIA; SEMANTIC DEMENTIA;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; APHASIA, PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 84903518347     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awu118     Document Type: Article

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