Geriatric performance on the Neurobehavioral Cognitive Status Examination (Cognistat): What is normal?

Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 463-471

  Macaulay, Caitlin ^a   Battista, Matthew ^b   Lebby, Paul C ^c   Mueller, Jonathan ^d  

^a ALLIANT INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Valley Children's Hospital   (United States)

^d San Francisco Clinical Neurosciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognistat; Cognitive norms; Geriatric; Neurobehavioral Cognitive Status Examination

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; COMPULSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; MEMORY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; ORIENTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0038630617     PISSN: 08876177     EISSN: 18735843     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0887-6177(02)00141-5     Document Type: Article

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