Selective naming (and comprehension) deficits in Alzheimer's disease?

Cortex

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 921-934

  Masterson, Jackie ^a   Druks, Judit ^b   Kopelman, Michael ^c   Clare, Linda ^d   Garley, Claire ^b   Hayes, Maureen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Category specific naming dificits; Noun verb differences; Semantic loss

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LATENT PERIOD; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 34948853890     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 00109452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-9452(08)70691-9     Document Type: Article

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