Impairment of episodic and semantic autobiographical memory in patients with mild cognitive impairment and early Alzheimer's disease

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2464-2469

  Leyhe, Thomas ^a   Müller, Stephan ^a   Milian, Monika ^a   Eschweiler, Gerhard W ^a   Saur, Ralf ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b the CNS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cognitive impairment; Cortical Reallocation Theory; Dementia; Multiple Trace Theory; Neurodegeneration; Temporal gradient

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MEMORY DISORDER; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; RECALL; RETROGRADE AMNESIA; SEMANTIC MEMORY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUTOBIOGRAPHY AS TOPIC; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MENTAL STATUS SCHEDULE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SEMANTICS;

EID: 67650076157     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.04.018     Document Type: Article

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