Deterioration of spontaneous speech in ad patients during a 1-year follow-up: Homogeneity of profiles and factors associated with progression

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 35-40

  Romero, Barbara ^a   Kwz, Alexander ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alzheimers disease; Cognitive decline; Family history of dementia; Longitudinal analysis; Spontaneous speech impairment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DETERIORATION; DISEASE COURSE; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SPEECH DISORDER;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; COMMUNICATION; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SPEECH DISORDERS; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0030047944     PISSN: 14208008     EISSN: 14219824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000106850     Document Type: Article

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