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Psychomotor performance in presenile dementia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

Edgar Miller
Edgar Miller*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of Southampton
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1Address for correspondance: E. Miller, Department of Psychiatry, The University, Southampton, SO9 5NH.
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Synopsis

The psychomotor performance of patients with presenile dementia was investigated in two experiments. It was found that motor retardation in dementia was due more to impaired effector processes rather than slowness in deciding when and where to move.

Type
Research Article
Information
Psychological Medicine , Volume 4 , Issue 1 , February 1974 , pp. 65 - 68
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1974

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