Longitudinal verbal fluency in normal aging, preclinical, and prevalent alzheimer?s disease

American Journal of Alzheimer's Disease and other Dementias

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 461-468

  Clark, Linda J ^a   Gatz, Margaret ^b   Zheng, Ling ^a   McCleary, Carol ^a   MacK, Wendy J ^a   Chen, Yu Ling ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Alzheimer?s disease; Cognitive impairment; Dementia; Fluency; Neuropsychology; Semantic memory

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLUENCY DISORDER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 70450284413     PISSN: 15333175     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1533317509345154     Document Type: Article

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