Self-awareness in neurodegenerative disease relies on neural structures mediating reward-driven attention

Brain

Volumn 137, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 2368-2381

  Shany Ur, Tal ^a,b   Lin, Nancy ^a   Rosen, Howard J ^a   Sollberger, Marc ^a,c   Miller, Bruce L ^a   Rankin, Katherine P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b National Institute for the Rehabilitation of the Brain Injured   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

ageing; attention; awareness; neurodegenerative diseases; voxel based morphometry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ANTERIOR INSULA; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CELL STRUCTURE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FRONTAL VARIANT FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; NON FLUENT VARIANT PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE APHASIA,; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT COMPETENCY RATING SCALE; PONS; PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE APHASIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; RIGHT TEMPORAL FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; SELF CONCEPT; SELF EVALUATION; SEMANTIC VARIANT PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE APHASIA; THALAMUS; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

AGEING; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; APHASIA; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; COGNITION DISORDERS; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; REWARD; SELF-ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84904973339     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awu161     Document Type: Article

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