Understanding Verbal Fluency in Healthy Aging, Alzheimer's Disease, and Parkinson's Disease

Neuropsychology

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 210-225

  McDowd, Joan ^a   Hoffman, Lesa ^b   Rozek, Ellen ^c   Lyons, Kelly E ^a   Pahwa, Rajesh ^a   Burns, Jeffrey ^a   Kemper, Susan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

AD; Aging and verbal fluency; Measuring fluency; PD

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FLUENCY DISORDER; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PARKINSON DISEASE; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COGNITION DISORDERS; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PARKINSON DISEASE; SEMANTICS; TIME FACTORS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VERBAL LEARNING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952585711     PISSN: 08944105     EISSN: 19311559     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0021531     Document Type: Article

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