Divided attention and metabolic brain dysfunction in mild dementia of the Alzheimer's type

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 1991, Pages 379-387

  Nestor, Paul G ^a   Parasuraman, Raja ^a   Haxby, James V ^b   Grady, Cheryl L ^b  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN METABOLISM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ATTENTION; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REACTION TIME; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0025772942     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0028-3932(91)90026-5     Document Type: Article

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