The impact of dementia, age and sex on category fluency: Greater deficits in women with Alzheimer's disease

Cortex

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1256-1264

  Moreno Martínez, F Javier ^a   Laws, Keith R ^b   Schulz, Joerg ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE EDUCACIÓN A DISTANCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aging; Alzheimer's; APOE; Category specific; Semantics; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 50149107380     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 00109452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2007.11.008     Document Type: Article

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