Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
Volume 181, Issue 2 , Pages 85-89 , 28 February 2010

Metabolic alterations associated with impaired clock drawing in Lewy body dementia

  • Robert Perneczky

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Technische Ismaninger Str. 22, 81675 München, Germany
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Psychiatrische Klinik der Technischen Universität München, Ismaninger Str. 22, 81675 München, Germany. Tel.: +49 89 4140 6055; fax: +49 89 4140 4888.
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  • Alexander Drzezga

      Affiliations

    • Department of Nuclear Medicine, Technische Universität München, Ismaninger Str. 22, 81675 München, Germany
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  • Henning Boecker

      Affiliations

    • Department of Nuclear Medicine, Technische Universität München, Ismaninger Str. 22, 81675 München, Germany
    • Department of Radiology, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Sigmund-Freud-Str. 25, 53127 Bonn, Germany
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  • Andres O. Ceballos-Baumann

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, Technische Universität München, Ismaninger Str. 22, 81675 München, Germany
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  • Michael Valet

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, Technische Universität München, Ismaninger Str. 22, 81675 München, Germany
    • ,
  • Regina Feurer

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, Technische Universität München, Ismaninger Str. 22, 81675 München, Germany
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  • Hans Förstl

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Technische Ismaninger Str. 22, 81675 München, Germany
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  • Alexander Kurz

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Technische Ismaninger Str. 22, 81675 München, Germany
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  • Peter Häussermann

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, Technische Universität München, Ismaninger Str. 22, 81675 München, Germany
    • Centre for Integrative Psychiatry, Niemannsweg 147, 24105 Kiel, Germany

Received 17 October 2007 ,Revised 3 August 2009 ,Accepted 3 August 2009.

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PII: S0925-4927(09)00177-2

doi: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2009.08.001

Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
Volume 181, Issue 2 , Pages 85-89 , 28 February 2010

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