Association Between Brain Functional Failure and Dementia Severity in Alzheimer's Disease: Resting Versus Stimulation PET Study - Pietrini, Pietro; Furey, Maura L.; Alexander, Gene E.; Mentis, Marc J.; Dani, Alessio; Guazzelli, Mario; Rapoport, Stanley I.; Schapiro, Mark B. (The American journal of psychiatry, 1999)
Keywords: Acoustic Stimulation; Aged; Alzheimer Disease - diagnosis; Alzheimer Disease - diagnostic imaging; Alzheimer Disease - physiopathology; Alzheimer's disease; Auditory Cortex - metabolism; Biological and medical sciences; Brain - diagnostic imaging; Brain - metabolism; Brain - physiopathology; Cerebral glucose; Degenerative and inherited degenerative diseases of the nervous system. Leukodystrophies. Prion diseases; Dementia; Elderly people; Female; Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; Glucose - metabolism; Humans; Indicators; Male; Medical sciences; Metabolism; Neurology; Parietal Lobe - metabolism; Photic Stimulation; Positron emission tomography; Psychiatric Status Rating Scales - statistics & numerical data; Psychiatry; Severity of Illness Index; Tomography, Emission-Computed - methods; Visual Cortex - metabolism; Radionuclide study; Human; Nervous system diseases; Alzheimer disease; Central nervous system; Stimulation; Glucose; Metabolism; Cerebral disorder; Rest; Visual stimulus; Acoustic stimulus; Central nervous system disease; Degenerative disease; Severity score; Diagnosis; Measurement method; Elderly; Comparative study; Brain (vertebrata); Positron; Emission tomography