Normative data for the two equivalent forms of the Arabic verbal fluency test

Pan Arab Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Al Ghatani, Ali M ^a   Obonsawin, Marc C ^b   Al Moutaery, Khalaf R ^a  

^a Prince Sultan Military Medical City   (Saudi Arabia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Verbal fluency and frontal lobe function

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARABIC VERBAL FLUENCY TEST; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; NORMAL VALUE; SOCIOECONOMICS; SPEECH ARTICULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 75749148750     PISSN: 13196995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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