Visuospatial processing in early Alzheimer's disease: Amultimodal neuroimaging study

Cortex

Volumn 64, Issue , 2015, Pages 394-406

  Jacobs, Heidi I L ^a,b   Gronenschild, H B M ^a   Evers, Elisabeth A T ^a   Ramakers, Inez H G B ^a   Hofman, Paul A M ^a,c   Backes, Walter H ^a,c   Jolles, Jelle ^a,d   Verhey, Frans R J ^a   Van Boxtel, Martin P J ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Compensation; Disconnection; Early alzheimer's disease; MRI; Object recognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NOVEL OBJECT RECOGNITION TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PARIETAL LOBE; RECOGNITION; TEMPORAL LOBE; AMNESIA; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; VISION;

AGED; AMNESIA; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84923380017     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 19738102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2012.01.005     Document Type: Article

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