Distinguishing between patients with depression or very mild alzheimer’s disease using the delayed-word-recall test

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 244-247

  Coen, Robert F ^a,b   Kirby, Michael ^a   Swanwick, Gregory R J ^a   Maguire, Conor P ^a   Walsh, J Bernard ^a   Coakley, Davis ^a   O’neill, Desmond ^a   Lawlor, Brian A ^a  

^a ST JAMES S HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^b ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Alzheimer s disease; Delayed recall; Delayed recognition; Depression

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DYSTHYMIA; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; WORD RECOGNITION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; COGNITION DISORDERS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES;

EID: 0030906984     PISSN: 14208008     EISSN: 14219824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000106638     Document Type: Article

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