Relationships between balance and cognition in patients with subjective cognitive impairment, mild cognitive impairment, and Alzheimer disease

Physical Therapy

Volumn 94, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1123-1134

  Tangen, Gro Gujord ^a   Engedal, Knut ^b   Bergland, Astrid ^c   Moger, Tron Anders ^a   Mengshoel, Anne Marit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b Ageing and Health Norwegian Centre for Dementia Research   (Norway)

^c OSLO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; BODY POSTURE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NEUROLOGIC GAIT DISORDER; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORWAY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REGISTER;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; COGNITION DISORDERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HUMANS; MALE; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; NORWAY; POSTURAL BALANCE; POSTURE; REGISTRIES;

EID: 84905271393     PISSN: 00319023     EISSN: 15386724     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2522/ptj.20130298     Document Type: Article

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