Spatial navigation testing discriminates two types of amnestic mild cognitive impairment

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 202, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 252-259

  Laczó, Jan ^a   Vlček, Kamil ^b   Vyhnálek, Martin ^a   Vajnerová, Olga ^a   Ort, Michael ^a   Holmerová, Iva ^c   Tolar, Martin ^d   Andel, Ross ^e   Bojar, Martin ^a   Hort, Jakub ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^c Centre of Gerontology   (Czech Republic)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Frontal lobe; Hippocampus; Humans; Memory; Mild cognitive impairment; Morris Water Maze; Spatial navigation

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LEARNING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY DISORDER; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; MOTIVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMNESIA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COGNITION; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ORIENTATION; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 67349172517     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2009.03.041     Document Type: Article

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