Arbitrary visuo-motor mapping during object manipulation in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease: A pilot study

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 113, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 453-458

  Ameli, Mitra ^a   Kemper, Friederike ^a   Sarfeld, Anna Sophia ^a   Kessler, Josef ^a   Fink, Gereon R ^a,b   Nowak, Dennis A ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^c Klinik Kipfenberg   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Conditional motor learning; Grip force; Hippocampal system; Lift force

Indexed keywords

DONEPEZIL; GALANTAMINE; MEMANTINE; RIVASTIGMINE;

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR VISION TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRIP STRENGTH; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; MOTOR CONTROL; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OBJECT MANIPULATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMNESIA; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION DISORDERS; COLOR; CUES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HAND STRENGTH; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; PILOT PROJECTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; WEIGHT PERCEPTION;

EID: 79958108726     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: 18726968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2011.01.011     Document Type: Article

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