Using mental imagery to improve memory in patients with Alzheimer disease: Trouble generating or remembering the mind's eye?

Alzheimer Disease and Associated Disorders

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 124-134

  Hussey, Erin P ^a   Smolinsky, John G ^b   Piryatinsky, Irene ^c   Budson, Andrew E ^d   Ally, Brandon A ^a,e  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cognitive rehabilitation; mental imagery; recognition memory; visual imagery

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPISODIC MEMORY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; GENERAL IMAGERY; HUMAN; IMAGERY; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; SELF REFERENTIAL IMAGERY; SEMANTIC MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGERY (PSYCHOTHERAPY); MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MEMORY, EPISODIC; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 84861462326     PISSN: 08930341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WAD.0b013e31822e0f73     Document Type: Article

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