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Semantic memory activation in amnestic mild cognitive impairment.
Brain : a journal of neurology - 1 Aug 2009
Woodard J L, Seidenberg M, Nielson K A, Antuono P, Guidotti L, Durgerian S, Zhang Q, Lancaster M, Hantke N, Butts A, Rao S M
Abstract excerpt
Cognitively intact older individuals at risk for developing Alzheimer's disease frequently show increased functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) brain activation presumably associated with compensatory recruitment, whereas mild cognitive impairment (MCI) patients tend not to show increased activation presumably due to reduced neural reserve. Previous studies, however, have typically used episodic memory...
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