Diagnosis of Dementia in a Heterogeneous Population: Development of a Neuropsychological Paradigm-Based Diagnosis of Dementia and Quantified Correction for the Effects of Education

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 1992, Pages 453-460

  Andrews, Howard ^a   Pittman, John ^a   Stern, Yaakov ^b   Sano, Mary ^b   Mayeux, Richard ^b   Lantigua, Rafael ^a   Tatemichi, Thomas ^a  

^a Psychiatry ^*  (United States)

^b College of Physicians and Surgeons Columbia University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEMENTIA; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDUCATION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MEMORY; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; DEMENTIA; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0026690012     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: 15383687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.1992.00530290035009     Document Type: Article

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