Display Settings:   Send to:  Choose Destination Arch Neurol.
2003 Jul;60(7):949-56.  Cinguloparietal atrophy distinguishes
Alzheimer disease from semantic dementia.  Author information
• Memory and Aging Center and the Department of Neurology,
University of California at San Francisco, 94143, USA.
adam.boxer@memory.ucsf.edu    Progressive brain atrophy is
associated with Alzheimer disease (AD) and other dementias.
Regional differences in brain atrophy may reflect clinical
features of disease.   To identify regions of cerebral atrophy
that are associated with AD vs other dementias.   University
hospital dementia clinic.   Eleven patients with AD and 11 with
semantic dementia (SD), matched for age, sex, education, and
degree of overall cognitive impairment and 15 normal controls.
Voxel-based morphometry was used to compare patterns of gray
matter loss, measured on T1-weighted magnetic resonance images,
between patients with AD or SD, a subtype of frontotemporal
lobar degeneration, and controls. Statistica