Alterations in working memory as a function of leukoaraiosis in dementia

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 245-254

  Lamar, Melissa ^a   Price, Catherine C ^b   Libon, David J ^c   Penney, Dana L ^d   Kaplan, Edith ^e   Grossman, Murray ^f   Heilman, Kenneth M ^b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

^d LAHEY HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Executive functioning; Subcortical dementia; Vascular dementia; Working memory

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LEUKOARAIOSIS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL FUNCTION; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RECALL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VARIANCE; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; WORKING MEMORY;

AGED; BRAIN; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; READING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; WECHSLER SCALES;

EID: 37849187593     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2006.07.009     Document Type: Article

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