Problem solving ability in patients with mild cognitive impairment

Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 44-47

  Beversdorf, David Q ^a   Ferguson, Jennifer L W ^a   Hillier, Ashleigh ^a,b   Sharma, Umesh K ^a   Nagaraja, Haikady N ^a   Bornstein, Robert A ^a   Scharre, Douglas W ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer disease; Dementia; Executive function; Language; Memory; Mild cognitive impairment; Problem solving; Visuospatial

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; LEARNING TEST; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; PATIENT CODING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COGNITION DISORDERS; DEMENTIA; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PARIETAL LOBE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROBLEM SOLVING; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 34247582849     PISSN: 15433633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNN.0b013e31802e5101     Document Type: Article

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