Dual-tasks and walking fast: Relationship to extra-pyramidal signs in advanced Alzheimer disease

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 248, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 205-209

  Camicioli, Richard ^a   Bouchard, Thomas ^a   Licis, Lisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alzheimer disease; Dual tasks; Extrapyramidal signs; Gait; Parkinsonism; Quantitative

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EXTRAPYRAMIDAL SYMPTOM; FALLING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GAIT; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; MODULATION; PARAMETERS OF MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RATING SCALE; RISK FACTOR; TASK PERFORMANCE; WALKING;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; WALKING;

EID: 33750488745     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2006.05.013     Document Type: Article

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