Neurobiology of Aging
Volume 30, Issue 10 , Pages 1626-1636 , October 2009

Patterns of cortical thinning in Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia

  • Blake A. Richards

      Affiliations

    • Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, 3080 Yonge Street, Suite 6020, Toronto, Ontario M4N 3N1, Canada
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  • Howard Chertkow

      Affiliations

    • Lady Davis Institute, Bloomfield Centre for Research in Aging, Room 408, 3755 Cote Street, Catherine Road, Montreal, Quebec H3T 1E2, Canada
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  • Vivek Singh

      Affiliations

    • Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, 3080 Yonge Street, Suite 6020, Toronto, Ontario M4N 3N1, Canada
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  • Alain Robillard

      Affiliations

    • Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont, 5415 Blvd. L’Assomption. 3ième étage, Corridor E, Montréal, Québec H1T 2M4, Canada
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  • Fadi Massoud

      Affiliations

    • Hôpital Notre-Dame, Service de gériatrie., 1560 Sherbrooke Est., Montréal, Québec H2L 4M1, Canada
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  • Alan C. Evans

      Affiliations

    • McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, Montreal Neurological Institute, 3801 University Street, Montreal, Quebec H3A 2B4, Canada
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  • Noor Jehan Kabani

      Affiliations

    • Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, 3080 Yonge Street, Suite 6020, Toronto, Ontario M4N 3N1, Canada
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Clinical Integrative Biology, 3080 Yonge Street, Suite 6020, PO Box 89, Toronto, Ontario M4N 3N1, Canada. Tel.: +1 416 482 3819; fax: +1 416 482 3807.

Received 21 March 2007 ,Revised 5 December 2007 ,Accepted 19 December 2007.

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doi: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2007.12.019

Neurobiology of Aging
Volume 30, Issue 10 , Pages 1626-1636 , October 2009

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