The Ege Agraphia Test Battery for Identifying Writing Disorders in Cases of Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer’s Disease 2
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Objective: The purpose of this study was to create an agraphia test battery specific to the Turkish language, to obtain normative data for the performance and error types of this test, and to demonstrate its success in detecting cognitive disorders in cases of Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), which cannot be diagnosed by formal neuropsychological tests due to the fact that writing is a complex function.
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تاریخ انتشار 2015