Alzheimer dementia in Down's syndrome: The relevance of cognitive ability

Journal of Intellectual Disability Research

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 47-55

  Temple, V ^a   Jozsvai, E ^a   Konstantareas, M M ^b   Hewitt, T A ^a  

^a Surrey Place Centre ^*  (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alzheimer disease; Cognitive ability; Dementia; Down's syndrome; Protective factors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DEMENTIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOWN SYNDROME; EDUCATION; EMPLOYMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HEALTH CENTER; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; ONSET AGE; RATING SCALE; RECREATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; COGNITION DISORDERS; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0035134458     PISSN: 09642633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2788.2001.00299.x     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders
2. Lack of association between Alzheimer's disease and education, occupation, marital status, or living arrangement
3. The Beery-Buktenica developmental test of visual-motor integration
4. A case-control study of Alzheimer's disease in Australia
5. Depression and the onset of dementia in adults with mental retardation
6. Risk factors for Alzheimer's disease in Canada
7. Occupation during life and memory performance in nondemented French elderly community residents
8. Normal aging in adults with Down's syndrome: A longitudinal study
9. The natural history of dementia in Down syndrome
10. Social and leisure activities and risk of dementia: A prospective longitudinal study
11. Clinical, pathological, and genetic heterogeneity of Alzheimer's disease
12. Prevalence of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias in an elderly urban population: Relationship with age, sex and education
13. Epidemiology, education, and the ecology of Alzheimer's disease
14. The fuld object-memory evaluation
15. Dementia scale for Down syndrome manual
16. Alzheimer's disease: A study of epidemiological aspects
17. Functional status, education, and the diagnosis of dementia in the Shanghai survey
18. Down's syndrome and dementia of the Alzheimer's type
19. Wide range achievement test - Revised
20. The prevalence of dementia in Down syndrome
21. The Boston naming test
22. Education and the prevalence of dementia and Alzheimer's disease
23. Measuring the activity patterns of adults with severe disabilities using the residential lifestyles inventory
24. Epidemiology of dementia in Ashkelon, Israel
25. Cognitive function and prediction of dementia in old age
26. A prospective study of Alzheimer's disease in Down syndrome
27. Alzheimer's disease and Down's syndrome
28. Intelligence: Knowns and unknowns
29. AAMD adaptive behaviour scale
30. Integrating nature and nurture: Implications of person-environment correlations and interactions for developmental psychopathology
31. Inverse relationship between education and parietotemporal perfusion deficit in Alzheimer's disease
32. Prospective study of the prevalence of Alzheimer-type dementia in institutionalized individuals with Down syndrome
33. The prevalence of dementia and Alzheimer's disease in Shanghai, China
34. Aging and Alzheimer's disease in people with mental retardation