Cognitive and anatomical correlates of anosognosia in amnestic mild cognitive impairment and early-stage Alzheimer's disease

International Psychogeriatrics

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 293-302

  Senturk, Gulben ^a   Bilgic, Basar ^a,b   Arslan, Ali Bilgin ^c   Bayram, Ali ^b   Hanagasi, Hasmet ^a   Gurvit, Hakan ^a   Emre, Murat ^a  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; mild cognitive impairment

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANOSOGNOSIA; ARTICLE; CALIFORNIA VERBAL LEARNING TEST; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL INSIGHT RATING SCALE AND ANOSOGNOSIA QUESTIONNAIRE FOR DEMENTIA; CLOCK DRAWING TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL THICKNESS (BRAIN); DEMENTIA ASSESSMENT; DIGIT ORDERING TEST; DIGIT SPAN BACKWARDS; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPISODIC MEMORY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; MALE; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; WORKING MEMORY; AGNOSIA; BRAIN CORTEX; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPLICATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOLOGY; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGNOSIA; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DYSFUNCTION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, EPISODIC; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ORGAN SIZE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; TURKEY;

EID: 84992361825     PISSN: 10416102     EISSN: 1741203X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1041610216001812     Document Type: Article

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