Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment: Effects of shifting and interference in simple arithmetic

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 263, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 79-88

  Zamarian, Laura ^a,b   Semenza, Carlo ^a   Domahs, Frank ^c   Benke, Thomas ^a,b   Delazer, Margarete ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Calculation; Daily life activities; Dementia; Ecological test; Executive functions; Fact retrieval

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEMENTIA; ECOLOGY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MEMORY; MENTAL STATUS SCHEDULE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROBLEM SOLVING; REACTION TIME;

EID: 35649000972     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2007.06.005     Document Type: Article

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