Impaired verbal description ability assessed by the Picture Description Task in Alzheimer's disease

Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 57-65

  Shimada, Masumi ^a   Meguro, Kenichi ^a   Yamazaki, Hideki ^b   Horikawa, Ayumi ^c   Hayasaka, Chika ^a   Yamaguchi, Satoshi ^a   Yamaguchi, Keiichiro ^c   Katsuyama, Naofumi ^c   Nakano, Masao ^c   Yamadori, Atsushi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Minami Hanamaki Hospital   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; SPECT; The Picture Description Test

Indexed keywords

IOFETAMINE I 123;

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THALAMUS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0031718067     PISSN: 01674943     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-4943(98)00099-5     Document Type: Article

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