Improvement pattern in the clock drawing test in early Alzheimer's disease

European Neurology

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 140-145

  Cacho, Jesús ^a   García García, Ricardo ^b,c   Fernández Calvo, Bernardino ^a,b   Gamazo, Silvia ^a   Rodríguez Pérez, Roberto ^a   Almeida, Aghostino ^c   Contador, Israel ^b  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE OF MAIA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Clock drawing test; Early Alzheimer's disease; Improvement pattern

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLOCK DRAWING TEST; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL TASK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ART; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COGNITION DISORDERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 20844438697     PISSN: 00143022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000085832     Document Type: Article

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