The pathogenesis of cingulate atrophy in behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer's disease

Acta Neuropathologica Communications

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Tan, Rachel H ^a   Pok, Karen ^b   Wong, Stephanie ^a   Brooks, Daniel ^a,c   Halliday, Glenda M ^a,c   Kril, Jillian J ^b  

^a NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Anterior cingulate cortex; Behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia; Posterior cingulate cortex; Tau; TDP 43

Indexed keywords

EID: 85005916213     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20515960     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2051-5960-1-30     Document Type: Article

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