Neuropsychological assessment of hispanics elders: Challenges and psychometric approaches

Ethnicity and the Dementias: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 71-86

  Mungas, Dan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 70349549459     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203957271     Document Type: Chapter

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