Incidental recall on WAIS-R digit symbol discriminates Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases

Journal of Clinical Psychology

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 387-394

  Demakis, George J ^a,b   Sawyer, Thomas P ^b   Fritz, Dawn ^b   Sweet, Jerry J ^a  

^a EVANSTON HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b ELMHURST COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's Disease; Digit Symbol; Incidental recall; Parkinson Disease

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY; PARKINSON DISEASE; RATING SCALE; RECALL; SYMBOLISM; VALIDATION PROCESS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; LEWY BODY DISEASE; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; PARKINSON DISEASE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SYMBOLISM;

EID: 0035096196     PISSN: 00219762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jclp.1020     Document Type: Article

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