Language impairment in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease;Alterações de linguagem nas fases iniciais da doença de Alzheimer

Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 311-317

  Ortiz, Karin Zazo ^a,b   Bertolucci, Paulo Henrique Ferreira ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIFESP EPM ^*  (Brazil)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Dementia; Language

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MEMORY DISORDER; READING; WRITING;

EID: 20644449899     PISSN: 0004282X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s0004-282x2005000200020     Document Type: Article

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