A normative study of lexical verbal fluency in an educationally-diverse elderly population

Psychiatry Investigation

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 346-351

  Kim, Bong Jo ^a   Lee, Cheol Soon ^a   Oh, Byoung Hoon ^b   Hong, Chang Hyung ^c   Lee, Kang Soo ^d   Son, Sang Joon ^b   Han, Changsu ^e   Park, Moon Ho ^e   Jeong, Hyun Ghang ^f   Kim, Tae Hui ^f   Park, Joon Hyuk ^g   Kim, Ki Woong ^f,h  

^a Gyeongsang National University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^c Ajou University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^d Kwandong University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^e Korea University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^f Seoul National University Bundang Hospital   (South Korea)

^g Jeju National University Hospital   (South Korea)

^h Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Age; Education; Elders; Korean; Lexical verbal fuency; Normative data

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CLINICAL DEMENTIA RATING; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEMENTIA; DSM-IV; EDUCATION; FEMALE; GENDER; GERIATRIC DEPRESSION SCALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LEXICAL VERBAL FLUENCY; LEXICAL VERBAL FLUENCY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; RISK FACTOR; SOUTH KOREA; VERY ELDERLY;

EID: 84892533593     PISSN: 17383684     EISSN: 19763026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4306/pi.2013.10.4.346     Document Type: Article

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