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Direct linkAsp, Elissa; Song, Xiaowei; Rockwood, Kenneth – Brain and Language, 2006
In a study of the discourse of 100 people with Alzheimer's disease treated for 12 months with donepezil, we observed that, as a group, they used a form of tag, described here as a self-referential tag (SRT), 14 times more frequently than did caregivers. Patients use SRTs to check propositions dependent on episodic memory as in I haven't seen the…
Descriptors: Alzheimers Disease, Patients, Geriatrics, Cognitive Tests
