Why do patients with neurodegenerative frontal syndrome fail to answer: 'In what way are an orange and a banana alike?'

Brain

Volumn 138, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 456-471

  Lagarde, Julien ^a,b   Valabrégue, Romain ^b,c,d,e   Corvol, Jean Christophe ^b,c,d,e   Garcin, Béatrice ^b,e   Volle, Emmanuelle ^b,e   Le Ber, Isabelle ^b,c,d,e   Vidailhet, Marie ^b,c,d,e   Dubois, Bruno ^b,c,d,e   Levy, Richard ^b,d,e,f  

^a CENTRE HOSPITALIER SAINTE ANNE   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^d SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^e CNRS   (France)

^f HÔPITAL SAINT ANTOINE   (France)

Author keywords

Basal ganglia; Executive functions; Frontal lobe; Frontotemporal dementia; Neuropsychiatry: imaging

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX LESION; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; FEMALE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NEURODEGENERATIVE FRONTAL SYNDROME; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSIVE SUPRANUCLEAR PALSY; TASK PERFORMANCE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ADULT; BRAIN DISEASE; FRONTAL LOBE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ADULT; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN DISEASES; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; GRAY MATTER; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84922369541     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awu359     Document Type: Article

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