Connected Language in Late Middle-Aged Adults at Risk for Alzheimer's Disease

Journal of Alzheimer's Disease

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1539-1550

  Mueller, Kimberly Diggle ^a,c   Koscik, Rebecca L ^a   Turkstra, Lyn S ^c   Riedeman, Sarah K ^c   Larue, Asenath ^a   Clark, Lindsay R ^a   Hermann, Bruce ^a   Sager, Mark A ^a   Johnson, Sterling C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b WILLIAM S MIDDLETON MEMORIAL VETERANS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; dementia; discourse; language disorders; linguistics; mild cognitive impairment; semantics; speech

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BOSTON DIAGNOSTIC APHASIA EXAMINATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONNECTED LANGUAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFECT SIZE; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LANGUAGE TEST; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; READING; REGISTER; RISK; SEMANTICS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; STUDENT T TEST; TASK PERFORMANCE; WISCONSIN; AGED; ATAXIC APHASIA; COHORT ANALYSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SPEECH;

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; APHASIA, BROCA; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; READING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SPEECH;

EID: 84992160222     PISSN: 13872877     EISSN: 18758908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/JAD-160252     Document Type: Article

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