Frontal dysfunction and memory deficits in the alcoholic korsakoff syndrome and alzheimer-type dementia

Brain

Volumn 114A, Issue 1, 1991, Pages 117-137

  Kopelman, Michael D ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KORSAKOFF PSYCHOSIS; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; ALCOHOL AMNESTIC DISORDER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGE; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 0026028944     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.brain.a101852     Document Type: Article

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