Severity of medial temporal atrophy and amnestic mild cognitive impairment: Selecting type and number of memory tests

American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1050-1058

  Loewenstein, David A ^a,b,c   Acevedo, Amarilis ^b   Potter, Elizabeth ^a,c   Schinka, John A ^c,d   Raj, Ashok ^c   Greig, Maria T ^a   Agron, Joscelyn ^a,c   Barker, Warren W ^a,c   Wu, Yougui ^c,f   Small, Brent ^c,e   Schofield, Elizabeth ^c   Duara, Ranjan ^a,b,c  

^a MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^d Administration Hospital   (United States)

^e School of Public Health

^f UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer disease; Demographics; MCI; Medial temporal lobe atrophy; Memory; Mild cognitive impairment; Neuropsychology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN CORTEX; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEMENTIA; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDUCATION; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; FULD OBJECT MEMORY EVALUATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HOPKINS VERBAL LEARNING TEST; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL LOBE; WECHSLER MEMORY SCALE; WESCHLER MEMORY SCALE;

EID: 74349114790     PISSN: 10647481     EISSN: 15457214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JGP.0b013e3181b7ef42     Document Type: Article

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