Selective sparing of verb naming in a case of severe Alzheimer's disease

Cortex

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 443-450

  Robinson, Gail ^a   Rossor, Martin ^b   Cipolotti, Lisa ^a  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Alzheimer disease; Naming; Verbs

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; VERBAL MEMORY;

EID: 0032839014     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-9452(08)70812-8     Document Type: Article

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