Lowered performance in working memory and attentional sub-processes are most prominent in multi-domain amnestic mild cognitive impairment subtypes

Psychogeriatrics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 63-71

  Klekociuk, Shannon Z ^a   Summers, Mathew J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Attention; Mild cognitive impairment; Neuropsychological; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; POST HOC ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SELF REPORT; VERY ELDERLY; WORKING MEMORY; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPLICATION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; MEMORY DISORDER; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; COGNITION DISORDERS; COHORT STUDIES; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS;

EID: 84896403784     PISSN: 13463500     EISSN: 14798301     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/psyg.12042     Document Type: Article

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