Vision and cognition in Alzheimer's disease

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 1157-1169

  Rizzo, Matthew ^a,b   Anderson, Steven W ^a   Dawson, Jeffrey ^b   Nawrot, Mark ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Attention; Neurodegenerative disease; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; VISION DISORDERS; VISION TESTS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0034074305     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3932(00)00023-3     Document Type: Article

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