Rule knowledge aids performance on spatial and object alternation tasks by alcoholic patients with and without Korsakoffs amnesia

Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 907-918

  Bardenhagen, Fiona J ^a,b,e   Oscar Berman, Marlene ^c   Bowden, Stephen C ^b,d  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^e NONE

Author keywords

Alcoholism; Comparative neuropsychology; Korsakoff's syndrome; Perseveration; Rule induction; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; KORSAKOFF PSYCHOSIS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PERSEVERATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 38149000726     PISSN: 11766328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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