Involution of categorical thinking processes in Alzheimer's disease: Preliminary results

Abstract Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a degenerative brain disorder characterized by progressive losses in cognitive functions, including memory. The sequence of these losses may correspond to the inverse order of the normal sequence of ontogenetic cognitive acquisitions, a process named retroge...

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Main Authors: Claudia Berlim de Mello, Jacqueline Abrisqueta-Gomez, Gilberto Fernando Xavier, Orlando Francisco Amodeo Bueno
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Neurologia Cognitiva e do Comportamento
Series:Dementia & Neuropsychologia
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1980-57642008000100057&lng=en&tlng=en