Semantic and letter fluency tasks: Normative data in an elderly population of 70 years old and over from the PAQUID cohort;Fluences verbales sémantiques et littérales: normes en population générale chez des sujets âgés de 70 ans et plus issus de la cohorte PAQUID

Revue Neurologique

Volumn 166, Issue 6-7, 2010, Pages 594-605

  Raoux, N ^a   Le Goff, M ^a   Auriacombe, S ^a   Dartigues, J F ^a   Amieva, H ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Elderly subjects; Letter fluency; Norms; Semantic; Verbal fluency task

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FRANCE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SEMANTICS; SEX RATIO; SPEECH; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL LETTER FLUENCY TASK; VERBAL MEMORY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BLINDNESS; COHORT STUDIES; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; FRANCE; HEARING DISORDERS; HUMANS; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFERENCE VALUES; SPEECH DISORDERS;

EID: 77954086996     PISSN: 00353787     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurol.2010.01.012     Document Type: Article

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