Speaking in Alzheimer's disease, is that an early sign? Importance of changes in language abilities in Alzheimer's disease

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue OCT, 2015, Pages

  Szatloczki, Greta ^a   Hoffmann, Ildiko ^a,b   Vincze, Veronika ^b   Kalman, Janos ^a   Pakaski, Magdolna ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Language domain; Mild cognitive impairment; Screening; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE MARKER; DISEASE SEVERITY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LINGUISTICS; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; PHONETICS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SCREENING TEST; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHORT SURVEY; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 84946572796     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16634365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2015.00195     Document Type: Short Survey

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