A computational linguistic measure of clustering behavior on semantic verbal fluency task predicts risk of future dementia in the Nun Study

Cortex

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 97-106

  Pakhomov, Serguei V S ^a   Hemmy, Laura S ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c GERIATRIC RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CLINICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Clustering; Dementia; Latent semantic analysis; Semantic verbal fluency

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; COGNITION; DEMENTIA; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MEAN SIZE OF SEMANTIC CHAIN; MEAN SIZE OF SEMANTIC CLUSTER; MEMORY DISORDER; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; RISK REDUCTION; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SEMANTIC VERBAL FLUENCY; SEMANTICS; WORD LIST RECALL; COHORT ANALYSIS; LANGUAGE; NUN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPEECH; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; COHORT STUDIES; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; NUNS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEMANTICS; SPEECH;

EID: 84901436425     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 19738102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2013.05.009     Document Type: Article

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