Spanish multicenter normative studies (NEURONORMA project): Norms for verbal Span, visuospatial Span, letter and number sequencing, trail making test, and symbol digit modalities test

Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 321-341

  Peña Casanova, Jordi ^a,b   Quiñones Úbeda, Sonia ^b   Quintana Aparicio, María ^b   Aguilar, Miquel ^c   Badenes, Dolors ^c   Molinuevo, José Luis ^d   Torner, Laura ^d   Robles, Alfredo ^e   Barquero, María Sagrario ^f   Villanueva, Clara ^f   Antúnez, Carmen ^g   Martínez Parra, Carlos ^h   Frank García, Anna ⁱ   Sanz, Azucena ⁱ   Fernández, Manuel ^j   Alfonso, Verónica ^k   Sol, Josep M ^k   Blesa, Rafael ^l  

^a HOSPITAL DEL MAR   (Spain)

^b INST MUNIC D INVESTIGACIO MEDICA   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL MÚTUA DE TERRASSA   (Spain)

^d HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

^e University Hospital of Santiago de Compostela   (Spain)

^f HOSPITAL CLÍNICO SAN CARLOS   (Spain)

^g HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DE LA ARRIXACA   (Spain)

^h HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN MACARENA   (Spain)

ⁱ HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO LA PAZ   (Spain)

^j HOSPITAL DE CRUCES   (Spain)

^k European Biometrics Institute   (Spain)

^l HOSPITAL DE LA SANTA CREU I SANT PAU   (Spain)

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Author keywords

Attention; Demography; Educational status; Problem solving; Reference values; Wechsler scales

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; CORSI TEST; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DIGIT SPAN FORWARD AND BACKWARD TEST; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LETTER NUMBER SEQUENCING TEST; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; NORMAL VALUE; SCORING SYSTEM; SYMBOL DIGIT MODALITIES TEST; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VISUAL MEMORY; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ATTENTION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REFERENCE VALUES; SPAIN; TRAIL MAKING TEST;

EID: 70349117751     PISSN: 08876177     EISSN: 18735843     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/arclin/acp038     Document Type: Article

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