Senility redefined as age-associated frontal system impairment?

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 386-388

  Royall, Donald R ^a   Chiodo, Laura K ^a   Polk, Marsha S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; COGNITION; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FRONTAL LOBE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; NOTE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REFERENCE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; VASCULARIZATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; COGNITION; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FRONTAL LOBE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0031093049     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.1997.tb00964.x     Document Type: Letter

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