Motor features in posterior cortical atrophy and their imaging correlates

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 2845-2857

  Ryan, Natalie S ^a   Shakespeare, Timothy J ^a   Lehmann, Manja ^a   Keihaninejad, Shiva ^a   Nicholas, Jennifer M ^a,b   Leung, Kelvin K ^a   Fox, Nick C ^a   Crutch, Sebastian J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Asymmetric atrophy; Corticobasal syndrome; Phenotype; Posterior cortical atrophy

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E4;

ADULT; ALIEN LIMB PHENOMENA; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; APOLIPOPROTEIN E4 GENE; APRAXIA; ARM MUSCLE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN CORTEX ATROPHY; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID EXAMINATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL THICKNESS (BRAIN); DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; GENE FREQUENCY; HUMAN; LIMB DISEASE; MALE; MORBIDITY; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MUSCLE RIGIDITY; MYOCLONUS; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PARIETAL CORTEX; PERIROLANDIC CORTEX; PUTAMEN; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE; THALAMUS; TREMOR; VOLUMETRY; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; AGED; ATROPHY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; SYNDROME;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ATROPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SYNDROME;

EID: 84911445729     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: 15581497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2014.05.028     Document Type: Article

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