A 7 minute neurocognitive screening battery highly sensitive to Alzheimer's disease

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 349-355

  Solomon, Paul R ^a,c   Hirschoff, Aliina ^a   Kelly, Bridget ^a   Relin, Mahri ^a   Brush, Michael ^a   DeVeaux, Richard D ^a   Pendlebury, William W ^b,c  

^a WILLIAMS COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Southwestern Vermont Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; OUTPATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; RECOGNITION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; SCREENING; VERBAL MEMORY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MASS SCREENING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0031895402     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.55.3.349     Document Type: Article

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