The cambridge semantic memory test battery: Detection of semantic deficits in semantic dementia and Alzheimer's disease

Neurocase

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 193-207

  Adlam, Anna Lynne R ^a   Patterson, Karalyn ^a   Bozeat, Sasha ^a   Hodges, John R ^b  

^a MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^b NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Dementia; Memory; Memory disorders; Neuropsychology; Semantic Dementia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CAMBRIDGE SEMANTIC MEMORY TEST BATTERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; SEMANTIC DEMENTIA; SEMANTIC MEMORY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMALS; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; FRONTOTEMPORAL LOBAR DEGENERATION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SEMANTICS;

EID: 77952946920     PISSN: 13554794     EISSN: 14653656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13554790903405693     Document Type: Article

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