Short-term memory binding is impaired in AD but not in non-AD dementias

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 833-840

  Della Sala, Sergio ^a   Parra, Mario A ^a,b   Fabi, Katia ^c   Luzzi, Simona ^c   Abrahams, Sharon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Differential diagnosis; Non Alzheimer's dementias; Short term memory binding; Sporadic alzheimer's disease; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; CLASSIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSE LEWY BODY DISEASE; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HUMAN; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PARKINSON DISEASE; RECALL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SHORT TERM MEMORY BINDING; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DEMENTIA; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 84858441526     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.01.018     Document Type: Article

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