Reading and comprehension disturbances of kanji and kana in Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia

Neurocase

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 381-390

  Fujimori, Misato ^a,b   Yamadori, Atsushi ^b   Imamura, Toru ^a   Sato, Mutsumi ^a   Takatsuki, Yoko ^a   Ikeda, Manabu ^a   Ikejiri, Yoshitaka ^a   Nakagawa, Yoshitsugu ^a   Nakai, Masamichi ^a   Shimomura, Tatsuo ^a  

^a Hyogo Inst Aging Brain Cogn D   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPREHENSION; DEMENTIA; DETERIORATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; READING; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 9844265413     PISSN: 13554794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13554799708411977     Document Type: Article

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