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A Study of Certain Qualitative Aspects of Problem Solving Behaviour in Senile Dementia Patients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

Margaret Davies Eysenck
Margaret Davies Eysenck*
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From the Laboratory for Clinical Research on Ageing at the Tooting Bec Hospital
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Recent psychological investigations have left little doubt that considerable mental deterioration takes place with advancing age. The work of the United States Army Psychologists in the last war (22), of Beeson (1), Jones and Conrad (10), Weisenburg, Roe and McBride (21), Sorensen (18), Miles (11, 12, 13, 14), Ruch (17), Thorndike (19), Wechsler (20), Gilbert (7); Cleveland and Dysinger (3) and others makes it apparent that not only do the various mental abilities decline with age, but also that they decline at different rates.

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Part I.—Original Articles
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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 91 , Issue 384 , July 1945 , pp. 337 - 345
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1945 

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