Diagnosis of early dementia by the Double Memory Test: Encoding specificity improves diagnostic sensitivity and specificity

Neurology

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 989-997

  Buschke, Herman ^a   Sliwinski, Martin J ^a   Kuslansky, Gail ^a   Lipton, Richard B ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL;

EID: 0030906605     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/wnl.48.4.989     Document Type: Article

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