Language impairment in euthymic, elderly patients with bipolar disorder but no dementia

International Psychogeriatrics

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 687-696

  Radanovic, Marcia ^a,b   Nunes, Paula Villela ^a   Gattaz, Wagner Farid ^a   Forlenza, Orestes Vicente ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Bipolar disorder; Cognition; Elderly; Language; Mild cognitive impairment

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BIPOLAR DISORDER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MALE; SCORING SYSTEM; SPEECH DISORDER; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

AFFECT; AGED; ANOMIA; BIPOLAR DISORDER; BRAZIL; COGNITION DISORDERS; COMORBIDITY; COMPREHENSION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; LANGUAGE TESTS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; RISK FACTORS; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT;

EID: 43949111349     PISSN: 10416102     EISSN: 1741203X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1041610208007084     Document Type: Article

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