Impaired spelling in Alzheimers disease: A linguistic deficit?

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 807-815

  Glosser, Guila ^a   Kohn, Susan E ^b   Sands, Laura ^b   Grugan, Patrick K ^b   Friedman, Rhonda B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Agraphia; Dementia

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; WRITING; AGING; AGRAPHIA; ATTENTION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HOSPITALIZATION; LINGUISTICS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AGED; AGING; AGRAPHIA; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ATTENTION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COGNITION DISORDERS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; WORD ASSOCIATION TESTS;

EID: 0032587985     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3932(98)00142-0     Document Type: Article

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