Establishing the limits and characteristics of normal age-related cognitive decline

Revue d'Epidemiologie et de Sante Publique

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 373-381

  Ritchie, K ^a   Touchon, J ^a   Ledesert B ^a   Leibovici, D ^a   Dupuy Gorce, A M ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Cognition; Dementia; Education; Senescence

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; EDUCATION; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SENILE DEMENTIA; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ALLELES; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; APOLIPOPROTEINS E; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COGNITION; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; EDUCATION; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PSYCHOMETRICS; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SOFTWARE; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0030727703     PISSN: 03987620     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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