Executive dysfunction and its association with personality and behaviour changes in the development of Alzheimer's disease in adults with Down syndrome and mild to moderate learning disabilities

British Journal of Clinical Psychology

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-29

  Ball, Sarah L ^a   Holland, Anthony J ^a   Treppner, Peter ^a   Watson, Peter C ^b   Huppert, Felicia A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^c Section of Developmental Psychiatry   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; LEARNING DISORDER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; COGNITION DISORDERS; COMORBIDITY; DOWN SYNDROME; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; LANGUAGE TESTS; LEARNING DISORDERS; MEMORY DISORDERS; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPEECH DISORDERS;

EID: 41049084845     PISSN: 01446657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1348/014466507X230967     Document Type: Article

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