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Normative data on Benton Visual Form Discrimination Test for older adults and impaired scores in Clinical Dementia Rating 0.5 participants: Community-based study. The Osaki–Tajiri Project

  1. Mari Kasai phd1,2,
  2. Junichi Ishizaki phd3,
  3. Hiroshi Ishii md, phd1,4,
  4. Satoshi Yamaguchi md, phd1,5,
  5. Atsushi Yamadori md, phd3,
  6. Kenichi Meguro md, phd1,5,*

Article first published online: 15 JAN 2009

DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1819.2008.01901.x

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Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Volume 63, Issue 1, pages 9–16, February 2009

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Kasai, M., Ishizaki, J., Ishii, H., Yamaguchi, S., Yamadori, A. and Meguro, K. (2009), Normative data on Benton Visual Form Discrimination Test for older adults and impaired scores in Clinical Dementia Rating 0.5 participants: Community-based study. The Osaki–Tajiri Project. Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, 63: 9–16. doi: 10.1111/j.1440-1819.2008.01901.x

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  1. 1

    Department of Geriatric Behavioral Neurology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai,

  2. 2

    Tohoku Medical Service and Welfare Group, Hachinohe,

  3. 3

    Kobe Gakuin University, Kobe,

  4. 4

    Kawasaki Kokoro Hospital, Kawasaki and

  5. 5

    Osaki–Tajiri SKIP Center, Osaki, Japan

* *Kenichi Meguro, MD, PhD, Department of Geriatric Behavioral Neurology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, 2-1, Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8575, Japan. Email: k-meg@umin.ac.jp

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  1. Issue published online: 15 JAN 2009
  2. Article first published online: 15 JAN 2009
  3. Received 7 March 2007; revised 16 September 2008; accepted 22 September 2008.

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