The placing test: Preliminary investigations of a quick and simple memory test designed to be sensitive to pre-dementia Alzheimer's disease but not to normal ageing

Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 843-858

  Anderson, Elizabeth ^a   De Jager, Celeste ^a,c   Iversen, Susan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c RADCLIFFE INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEMENTIA; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EDUCATION; FACE; FEMALE; GENDER; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LEARNING; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MEMORY; MENTAL DETERIORATION; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLE; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STANDARD; TEMPORAL LOBE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; COGNITION; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL STATUS SCHEDULE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS;

EID: 33745835121     PISSN: 13803395     EISSN: 1744411X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13803390591001016     Document Type: Article

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