Factor structure of a modified version of the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test: An analysis of executive deficit in Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 103-112

  Nagahama, Yasuhiro ^a,b   Okina, Tomoko ^a   Suzuki, Norio ^b   Matsuzaki, Shigeru ^b   Yamauchi, Hiroshi ^b   Nabatame, Hidehiko ^b   Matsuda, Minoru ^a  

^a Shiga Medical Center   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amnesia; Dementia; Frontal lobe; Perseveration; Set shifting

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PERSEVERATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; WISCONSIN CARD SORTING TEST;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; COGNITION DISORDERS; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS;

EID: 0037638927     PISSN: 14208008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000070683     Document Type: Article

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