Apraxia for differentiating Alzheimer's disease from subcortical vascular dementia and mild cognitive impairment

Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment

Volumn 9, Issue , 2013, Pages 947-951

  Ozkan, Serhat ^a   Ozbabalik Adapinar, Demet ^a   Tuncer Elmaci, Nese ^a   Arslantas, Didem ^a  

^a Department of Neurology ^*  (Turkey)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Apraxia; Mild cognitive impairment; Subcortical vascular dementia

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; APRAXIA SCREENING TEST OF TULIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL DEMENTIA RATING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IDEOMOTOR APRAXIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; MORBIDITY; MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCREENING TEST;

EID: 84880092526     PISSN: 11766328     EISSN: 11782021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/NDT.S47879     Document Type: Article

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