Leukoaraiosis severity and list-learning in dementia

Clinical Neuropsychologist

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 944-961

  Price, Catherine C ^a   Garrett, Kelly Davis ^b   Jefferson, Angela L ^c   Cosentino, Stephanie ^d   Tanner, Jared J ^a   Penney, Dana L ^e   Swenson, Rodney ^f   Giovannetti, Tania ^g   Bettcher, Brianne Magouirk ^g   Libon, David J ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b LDS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^e LAHEY HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^g TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Binswanger's disease; Episodic memory; Subcortical dementia; The Philadelphia (repeatable) Verbal Learning Test (PrVLT); Vascular dementia

Indexed keywords

AGED; AMNESIA; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISCHEMIA; LEARNING TEST; LEUKOARAIOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; RATING SCALE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS; LEUKOARAIOSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SERIAL LEARNING; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 68949164878     PISSN: 13854046     EISSN: 17444144     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13854040802681664     Document Type: Article

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