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SUBMITTER: Whitwell JL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3404265 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Whitwell Jennifer L JL Xu Jia J Mandrekar Jay J Boeve Bradley F BF Knopman David S DS Parisi Joseph E JE Senjem Matthew L ML Dickson Dennis W DW Petersen Ronald C RC Rademakers Rosa R Jack Clifford R CR Josephs Keith A KA
Neurobiology of aging 20120411 2
We aimed to assess associations between clinical, imaging, pathologic, and genetic features and frontal lobe asymmetry in behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD). Volumes of the left and right dorsolateral, medial, and orbital frontal lobes were measured in 80 bvFTD subjects and subjects were classified into 3 groups according to the degree of asymmetry (asymmetric left, asymmetric right, symmetric) using cluster analysis. The majority of subjects were symmetric (65%), with 20% asymme ...[more]