Increased proportion of farm animal names generated by patients with Alzheimer's disease: What does it mean?

Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 297-302

  Beatty, William W ^a   Hanisch, Charlotte ^a,b   Testa, Julie A ^a   Tröster, Alexander I ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL MEMORY;

EID: 0032317327     PISSN: 13825585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1076/anec.5.4.297.772     Document Type: Article

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