Colour vision deficiencies in Alzheimer's disease

Age and Ageing

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 422-426

  Pache, Mona ^a   Smeets, Claudia H W ^b   Gasio, Paola Fontana ^b   Savaskan, Egemen ^b   Flammer, Josef ^a   Wirz Justice, Anna ^b   Kaiser, Hedwig J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY EYE CLINIC   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Colour vision; Ishihara; PV 16

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COLOR VISION DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUPIL REFLEX; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION TEST; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; COLOR PERCEPTION; COLOR PERCEPTION TESTS; COLOR VISION DEFECTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0041672487     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/32.4.422     Document Type: Article

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