Neuropsychological predictors of dependency in patients with Alzheimer disease

Neurology

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1027-1031

  Sarazin, M ^a   Stern, Y ^g   Berr, C ^b   Riba, A ^c,d   Albert, M ^e   Brandt, J ^f   Dubois, B ^a  

^a PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center   (United States)

^d Harvard Medical School ^*  (United States)

^e MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; APRAXIA; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPENDENT PERSONALITY DISORDER; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; EXTRAPYRAMIDAL SYMPTOM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TIME PERCEPTION; VISION;

EID: 15244362927     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.WNL.0000154529.53488.30     Document Type: Article

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