The Effects of Alzheimer's Disease on Item Output in Verbal Fluency Tasks

Neuropsychology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 306-314

  Sailor, Kevin ^a   Antoine, Miriam ^a   Diaz, Michael ^a   Kuslansky, Gail ^b   Kluger, Alan ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEMORY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RECALL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TAXONOMY; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANOMIA; APHASIA, BROCA; APHASIA, WERNICKE; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL STATUS SCHEDULE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; REFERENCE VALUES; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 1942438131     PISSN: 08944105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0894-4105.18.2.306     Document Type: Article

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