Screening for early Alzheimer's disease: Is there still a role for the Mini-Mental State Examination?

Primary Care Companion to the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 62-67

  Benson, Aaron D ^a,b   Slavin, Melissa J ^a   Tran, Thanh Thu ^a   Petrella, Jeffrey R ^a   Doraiswamy, P Murali ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; SCREENING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 28944441379     PISSN: 15235998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4088/pcc.v07n0204     Document Type: Article

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