MEMORY DYSFUNCTION IN ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO BRAIN METABOLISM AS MEASURED BY POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY.

Title: MEMORY DYSFUNCTION IN ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO BRAIN METABOLISM AS MEASURED BY POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY.
Identifier: AAI8801740
identifier: 8801740
Creator: MILLER, JEFFREY DREW.
Contributor: Max Pollack
Date: 1987
Language: English
Publisher: City University of New York.
Subject: Psychology, Psychobiology
Abstract: Elderly controls and probable Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients underwent serial positron emission tomography (PET) studies during a baseline condition and while performing a verbal recognition memory task. A differential metabolic response specific to the temporal lobes was found. In all seven AD patients a greater proportion of the total temporal lobe activity favored the right during the memory condition when compared to baseline. Five out of seven controls showed the opposite effect; a task-related lateral asymmetry of activity that favored the left. Baseline regional metabolic rates were less useful than the memory challenge metabolic rates in differentiating patients from controls. These results suggest that the observed memory processing deficit in AD is related to a temporal lobe metabolic abnormality.
Type: dissertation
Source: PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
degree: Ph.D.
Program: Psychology

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