Which verbal fluency measure is most useful in demonstrating executive deficits after traumatic brain injury?

Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 358-365

  Kavé, Gitit ^a   Heled, Eyal ^b,c   Vakil, Eli ^d   Agranov, Eugenia ^c,e  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^d BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^e TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Executive functions; Hebrew; Language testing; Switching and clustering; Traumatic brain injury; Verbal fluency

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN INJURY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEMANTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN INJURIES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHONETICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEMANTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; WECHSLER SCALES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952595551     PISSN: 13803395     EISSN: 1744411X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13803395.2010.518703     Document Type: Article

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