A longitudinal study of language decline in Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia

Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 237-245

  Blair, Mervin ^a   Marczinski, Cecile A ^b   Davis Faroque, Nicole ^a   Kertesz, Andrew ^a  

^a ST JOSEPH S HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's type dementia; Frontotemporal lobar degeneration; Primary progressive aphasia; Progressive nonfluent aphasia; Semantic dementia; Western Aphasia Battery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERSATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; ECHOLALIA; FEMALE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LANGUAGE TEST; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE APHASIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; RATING SCALE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; APHASIA, PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE; DEMENTIA; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 33947676929     PISSN: 13556177     EISSN: 14697661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1355617707070269     Document Type: Article

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