Modified-Symbol Digit Modalities Test for African Americans, Caribbean Black Americans, and non-Latino Whites: Nationally representative normative data from the National Survey of American Life

Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 605-613

  González, Hector M ^a   Whitfield, Keith E ^b   West, Brady T ^c   Williams, David R ^d   Lichtenberg, Peter A ^a   Jackson, James S ^c  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

African Americans; Blacks; Caribbean Blacks; Neuropsychological tests

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AFRICAN CARIBBEAN; AGE; ARTICLE; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; GENDER; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERVIEW; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; NORMAL VALUE; RACE DIFFERENCE; SYMBOL DIGIT MODALITIES TEST; TASK PERFORMANCE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34250325521     PISSN: 08876177     EISSN: 18735843     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acn.2007.04.002     Document Type: Article

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