Selective decline in memory function among healthy elderly

Neurology

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1392-1396

  Small, Scott A ^b   Stern, Yaakov ^c   Tang, Ming ^a   Mayeux, Richard ^a  

^a Columbia Univ Coll Phys Surgs ^*  (United States)

^b Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; COGNITION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; LEARNING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0033594355     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/wnl.52.7.1392     Document Type: Article

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