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447
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1980 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Nelson Butters was affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States during their academic career.

They were recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1980.

As an academic with available data, no records of their recent papers, frequent co-authors, publication venues, book publications, fields or subfields of study, or research topics have been documented.

Best Publications

  • Physical basis of cognitive alterations in Alzheimer's disease: synapse loss is the major correlate of cognitive impairment.

    Robert D. Terry;Eliezer Masliah;David P. Salmon;Nelson Butters

  • Neuropsychology of memory

    Larry R. Squire;Nelson Butters

  • The Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer's Disease (CERAD). Part V. A normative study of the neuropsychological battery

    Kathleen A. Welsh;Nelson Butters;Richard C. Mohs;D. Beekly

  • The Lewy body variant of Alzheimer's disease A clinical and pathologic entity

    L. Hansen;D. Salmon;D. Galasko;E. Masliah

  • Detection of Abnormal Memory Decline in Mild Cases of Alzheimer's Disease Using CERAD Neuropsychological Measures

    Kathleen Welsh;Nelson Butters;James Hughes;Richard Mohs

  • Some connections of the entorhinal (area 28) and perirhinal (area 35) cortices of the rhesus monkey. II. Frontal lobe afferents.

    Gary W. Van Hoesen;Gary W. Van Hoesen;Deepak N. Pandya;Deepak N. Pandya;Nelson Butters;Nelson Butters

  • Semantic memory impairment in Alzheimer's disease: failure of access or degraded knowledge?

    John R. Hodges;David P. Salmon;Nelson Butters

  • Comparisons of Verbal Fluency Tasks in the Detection of Dementia of the Alzheimer Type

    Andreas U. Monsch;Mark W. Bondi;Nelson Butters;David P. Salmon

  • The HNRC 500-Neuropsychology of Hiv infection at different disease stages

    Robert K. Heaton;Igor Grant;Nelson Butters;Desirée A. White

  • Neuropsychological evidence for multiple implicit memory systems: a comparison of Alzheimer's, Huntington's, and Parkinson's disease patients

    William C. Heindel;David P. Salmon;Clifford W. Shults;Patricia A. Walicke

  • Episodic and Semantic Memory: A Comparison of Amnesic and Demented Patients

    Nelson Butters;Eric Granholm;David P. Salmon;Igor Grant

  • Detection and staging of dementia in Alzheimer's disease. Use of the neuropsychological measures developed for the Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer's Disease

    Kathleen A. Welsh;Nelson Butters;James P. Hughes;Richard C. Mohs

  • Quantitative and qualitative analyses of clock drawings in Alzheimer's and Huntington's disease.

    Isabelle Rouleau;David P Salmon;Nelson Butters;Nelson Butters;Colleen Kennedy;Colleen Kennedy

  • Cortical Afferents to the Entorhinal Cortex of the Rhesus Monkey

    Gary W. Van Hoesen;Deepak N. Pandya;Nelson Butters

  • Impaired prepulse inhibition of acoustic and tactile startle response in patients with Huntington's disease.

    N R Swerdlow;J Paulsen;D L Braff;N Butters

  • Profiles of demented and amnesic patients on the California verbal learning test : implications for the assessment of memory disorders

    Dean C. Delis;Paul J. Massman;Nelson Butters;David P. Salmon

  • Differential Patterns of Memory Loss Among Patients With Alzheimer's Disease, Huntington's Disease, and Alcoholic Korsakoff's Syndrome

    Mark B. Moss;Marilyn S. Albert;Nelson Butters;Nelson Butters;Melanie Payne

  • Cognitive Loss and Recovery in Long-term Alcohol Abusers

    Jason Brandt;Nelson Butters;Christopher Ryan;Roger Bayog

  • The nature of the naming deficit in Alzheimer's and Huntington's disease.

    John R. Hodges;David P. Salmon;Nelson Butters

  • Temporal gradients in the retrograde amnesia of patients with alcoholic Korsakoff's disease

    Marilyn S. Albert;Nelson Butters;Judith Levin

Frequent Co-Authors

Laird S. Cermak
Laird S. Cermak Boston University
David P. Salmon
David P. Salmon University of California, San Diego
Dean C. Delis
Dean C. Delis University of California, San Diego
Harold Goodglass
Harold Goodglass Boston University
William C. Heindel
William C. Heindel Brown University
Terry L. Jernigan
Terry L. Jernigan University of California, San Diego
Jane S. Paulsen
Jane S. Paulsen University of Wisconsin–Madison
Paula K. Shear
Paula K. Shear University of Cincinnati
Marilyn S. Albert
Marilyn S. Albert Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Agnes S. Chan
Agnes S. Chan Chinese University of Hong Kong

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