Greater impairment of ability in the divided attention task is seen in Alzheimer's disease patients with depression than in those without depression

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 231-240

  Nakaaki, Shutaro ^a   Murata, Yoshie ^a   Sato, Junko ^b   Shinagawa, Yoshihiro ^a   Tatsumi, Hiroshi ^c   Hirono, Nobutsugu ^d   Furukawa, Toshiaki A ^a  

^a NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b Yagoto Hospital   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA DAINI RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d KOBE GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Depression; Divided attention; Executive dysfunction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; COGNITION DISORDERS; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; MALE; MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS;

EID: 33947697772     PISSN: 14208008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000099633     Document Type: Article

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