Click Here to return To Results

 

Cerebral Metabolic Asymmetries & Assoc Neuro-psych Patterns in Early Dementia of the Alzheimer Type Arch Neurol 47:753-760, Haxby,J.V., 1990 See this aricle in Pubmed Article Abstract In mildly impaired patients,correlations between right-left metabolic asymmetries and neuropsychological discrepancies were insignificant initially but were significant at last evaluation.These results demonstrate that heterogeneous nonmemory language and visuospatial impairments in early DAT are related to and predicted by the earlier appearing distribution of metabolic reductions in the association neocortex.

Related Tags

(click to filter results - removes previous filter) Alzheimer's disease Alzheimer's disease,heterogeneity of association cortex CAT scan,emission CAT scan,emission,abnormal dementia psychological testing

Click Here to return To Results