In a case of Alzheimer's disease, aggressiveness disappeared after an infarction in the anterior thalamic nucleus.
Muneoka
Katsumasa
K
Hirasawa Kinen Hospital, Saitama, Japan. kmuneoka@med.showa-u.ac.jp
Igawa
Mariko
M
Kida
Jiro
J
Mikami
Tomoko
T
Ishihara
Isamu
I
Uchida
Junko
J
Uchida
Sunao
S
Hirasawa
Hideto
H
D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000374:Aggression / Q000502:physiology*; D000544:Alzheimer Disease / Q000150:complications* / Q000523:psychology; D020643:Anterior Thalamic Nuclei / Q000098:blood supply* / Q000502:physiology; D001007:Anxiety / Q000209:etiology; D002544:Cerebral Infarction / Q000523:psychology*; D038524:Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D005260:Female; D006791:Hostility; D006801:Humans; D014754:Violence