Musical skill in dementia: A violinist presumed to have Alzheimer's disease learns to play a new song

Neurocase

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 493-503

  Cowles, Anne ^a   Beatty, William W ^a   Nixon, Sara Jo ^a   Lutz, Lanna J ^a   Paulk, Jason ^a   Paulk, Kayla ^a   Ross, Elliott D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Episodic memory; Implicit memory; Musical memory

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANTEROGRADE AMNESIA; APHASIA; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CASE REPORT; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPRAXIA; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDER; MUSIC; MUSICIAN; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; RECALL; SKILL; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ATTENTION; DEMENTIA; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; MUSIC; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 0344035580     PISSN: 13554794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1076/neur.9.6.493.29378     Document Type: Article

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