Luria's three-step test: What is it and what does it tell us?

International Psychogeriatrics

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1602-1606

  Weiner, Myron F ^a,b   Hynan, Linda S ^a   Rossetti, Heidi ^a,c   Falkowski, Jed ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; frontotemporal dementia; Luria test; mild cognitive impairment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; APTITUDE TEST; ARTICLE; CLINICAL DEMENTIA RATING SCALE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; RATING SCALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; COGNITION DISORDERS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HUMANS; MALE; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 80455150397     PISSN: 10416102     EISSN: 1741203X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1041610211000767     Document Type: Article

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