Functional ability in executive variant Alzheimer's disease and typical Alzheimer's disease

Clinical Neuropsychologist

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 331-340

  Back Madruga, Carla ^a,b   Boone, Kyle Brauer ^c   Briere, John ^a   Cummings, Jeffrey ^b   McPherson, Susan ^b   Fairbanks, Lynn ^b   Thompson, Elizabeth ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE TEST; LANGUAGE TEST; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; SCORING SYSTEM; SYMPTOM; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL DISORDERS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0345237924     PISSN: 13854046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1076/clin.16.3.331.13846     Document Type: Article

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