Quantitative and qualitative analysis of verbal fluency tasks in Parkinson patients;Quantitative und qualitative analysen von verbalen flüssigkeitsaufgaben bei Parkinsonpatienten

Zeitschrift fur Neuropsychologie

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 188-199

  Heiss, Cecilia ^a   Kalbe, E ^b   Kessler, J ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR NEUROLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Parkinson patients; Semantic and letter fluency tasks

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012232230     PISSN: 1016264X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1024//1016-264X.12.3.188     Document Type: Article

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