Referential communication in Alzheimer's type dementia

Cortex

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 520-534

  Carlomagno, Sergio ^a   Santoro, Anna ^b   Menditti, Antonella ^b   Pandolfi, Maria ^b   Marini, Andrea ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dementia; Empty speech; Reference

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; APHASIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEMENTIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; MENTAL CAPACITY; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK; PSYCHOMETRY; SCORING SYSTEM; SPEECH ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 21644454631     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-9452(08)70192-8     Document Type: Article

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