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Clinical Issues

Discriminative capacity and construct validity of the Clock Drawing Test in Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer’s disease

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Pages 1159-1174 | Received 16 Mar 2018, Accepted 27 Sep 2018, Published online: 13 Nov 2018

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