A longitudinal study of quantitative and qualitative features of category verbal fluency in incident Alzheimer's disease subjects: Results from the PAQUID study

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 260-266

  Auriacombe, Sophie ^a,b,d   Lechevallier, Nathalie ^c   Amieva, Hélène ^b   Harston, Sandrine ^a,b   Raoux, Nadine ^a,b   Dartigues, Jean François ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c INSERM U657   (France)

^d HÔPITAL PELLEGRIN   (France)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Longitudinal study, verbal fluency; Verbal fluency

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUENCY DISORDER; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMICS; SPEECH ARTICULATION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 33645712249     PISSN: 14208008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000091407     Document Type: Article

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