Can you have dementia with an MMSE score of 30?

American Journal of Alzheimer's Disease and other Dementias

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 406-415

  Shiroky, Jonah S ^a   Schipper, Hyman M ^a,b,c   Bergman, Howard ^a,c   Chertkow, Howard ^a,b,c,d  

^a Bloomfield Centre for Research in Aging   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Memory; Mini Mental State Examination

Indexed keywords

CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITOR; DONEPEZIL;

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL RECORD; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PSYCHOMETRY;

EID: 38649125909     PISSN: 15333175     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1533317507304744     Document Type: Article

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