The use of an interactive computer terminal in the assessment of cognitive function in elderly psychiatric patients.
The use of a teaching machine is the assessment of mental function has been described by Gredye and his colleagues. This report concerns its use in testing 56 elderly patients suffering from functional psychiatric disorders of dementia. After a diagnostic interview patients were tested on the teachi...
| Publicado en: | Age & Ageing Vol. 4; no. 2; pp. 111 - 116 |
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| Formato: | research Journal Article |
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Oxford University Press / USA
1975 May
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