The diagnostic value of controlled oral word association test-FAS and category fluency in single-domain amnestic mild cognitive impairment

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 235-240

  Malek Ahmadi, Michael ^a,b   Small, Brent J ^a   Raj, Ashok ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b SUN HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Dementia; Mild cognitive impairment; Neuropsychology; Prodromal Alzheimer's disease; Verbal fluency

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; COGNITION; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EDUCATION; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; LEARNING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; PERSONALITY TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMNESIA; AREA UNDER CURVE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TRAIL MAKING TEST; VERBAL LEARNING; WORD ASSOCIATION TESTS;

EID: 82955161761     PISSN: 14208008     EISSN: 14219824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000334525     Document Type: Article

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