Affiliation: University of California
- An overview on Primary Progressive Aphasia and its variantsSerena Amici
Memory and Aging Center, Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, USA
Behav Neurol 17:77-87. 2006..The neuroimaging analysis showed left perisylvian region involvement. A comprehensive cognitive, neuroimaging and pathological approach is necessary to identify the clinical and pathogenetic features of different PPA variants...
- Performance in specific language tasks correlates with regional volume changes in progressive aphasiaSerena Amici
Department of Neurology, Memory and Aging Center, University of California, San Francisco, USA
Cogn Behav Neurol 20:203-11. 2007..Patterns of language impairment have long been used clinically to localize brain damage in stroke patients. The same approach might be useful in the differential diagnosis of progressive aphasia owing to neurodegenerative disease...
- Anatomical correlates of sentence comprehension and verbal working memory in neurodegenerative diseaseSerena Amici
Memory and Aging Center, Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143 1207, USA
J Neurosci 27:6282-90. 2007..This study reconciles two opposing views, which hold that sentence comprehension and vWM rely on either the same or different anatomical resources...
- Apraxia of speech: an overviewJennifer Ogar
UCSF Memory and Aging Center, San Francisco, CA 94143 1207, USA
Neurocase 11:427-32. 2005..Current models of motor programming will also be addressed as they relate to AOS and finally, typical treatment strategies used in rehabilitating the articulation and prosody deficits associated with AOS will be summarized...
- Clinical and neuropsychological features of corticobasal degenerationNataliya Belfor
University of California San Francisco, Memory and Aging Center, 350 Parnassus Avenue, Suite 705, 94143, USA
Mech Ageing Dev 127:203-7. 2006..Increasing awareness of this disorder has led to the realization that specific cognitive and imaging changes are common with CBD degeneration and that these changes help with clinical diagnosis...
- Hyperhomocyst(e)inemia: a risk factor for cerebrovascular diseaseLucilla Parnetti
Neuroscience Department, University of Perugia, Italy
Clin Exp Hypertens 24:501-9. 2002..Further studies are needed, in order to better characterize the association between Hcy concentrations and risk of stroke...