Three-year changes in cognitive performance as a function of apolipoprotein E genotype: Evidence from very old adults without dementia

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 80-87

  Small, Brent J ^a,c   Basun, Hans ^a   Bäckman, Lars ^a,b  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E4;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COGNITION; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SPATIAL MEMORY; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VISUAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; APOLIPOPROTEINS E; COGNITION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MEMORY;

EID: 0031977813     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.13.1.80     Document Type: Article

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