Cortex
Volume 44, Issue 9 , Pages 1188-1196 , October 2008

Clustering and switching processes in semantic verbal fluency in the course of Alzheimer's disease subjects: Results from the PAQUID longitudinal study

  • Nadine Raoux

      Affiliations

    • INSERM, U897, Bordeaux cedex, France
    • University Victor Segalen Bordeaux 2, Bordeaux Cedex, France
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. INSERM, U897, University Victor Segalen Bordeaux 2, 146 rue Léo Saignat, F-33076 Bordeaux Cedex, France.
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  • Hélène Amieva

      Affiliations

    • INSERM, U897, Bordeaux cedex, France
    • University Victor Segalen Bordeaux 2, Bordeaux Cedex, France
    • ,
  • Mélanie Le Goff

      Affiliations

    • INSERM, U897, Bordeaux cedex, France
    • University Victor Segalen Bordeaux 2, Bordeaux Cedex, France
    • ,
  • Sophie Auriacombe

      Affiliations

    • University Hospital of Bordeaux, France
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  • Laure Carcaillon

      Affiliations

    • INSERM, U897, Bordeaux cedex, France
    • University Victor Segalen Bordeaux 2, Bordeaux Cedex, France
    • ,
  • Luc Letenneur

      Affiliations

    • INSERM, U897, Bordeaux cedex, France
    • University Victor Segalen Bordeaux 2, Bordeaux Cedex, France
    • ,
  • Jean-François Dartigues

      Affiliations

    • INSERM, U897, Bordeaux cedex, France
    • University Victor Segalen Bordeaux 2, Bordeaux Cedex, France
    • University Hospital of Bordeaux, France

Received 5 April 2007 ,Revised 25 July 2007 ,Accepted 13 August 2007.

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PII: S0010-9452(07)00158-X

doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2007.08.019

Cortex
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