Abnormalities of connected speech in semantic dementia vs Alzheimer's disease

Aphasiology

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 847-866

  Sajjadi, Seyed Ahmad ^a   Patterson, Karalyn ^a   Tomek, Michal ^a   Nestor, Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Connected speech; Dementia; Mild Alzheimer's disease; Neurodegenerative; Picture description; Semantic dementia; Semi structured interview; Speech analysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANOMIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHONETICS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEMANTIC DEMENTIA; SEMANTICS; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH DISORDER; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 84861892449     PISSN: 02687038     EISSN: 14645041     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02687038.2012.654933     Document Type: Article

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