Cognitive function and frontal lobe atrophy in normal elderly adults: Implications for dementia not as aging-related disorders and the reserve hypothesis

Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 565-572

  Meguro, Kenichi ^a   Shimada, Masumi ^a   Yamaguchi, Satoshi ^a   Ishizaki, Junichi ^a   Ishii, Hiroshi ^a   Shimada, Youichi ^a   Sato, Mari ^a   Yamadori, Atsushi ^a   Sekita, Yasuyoshi ^b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brain atrophy; Cognitive function; Education; Normal aging; Reserve hypothesis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; EDUCATION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; WORKING MEMORY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ATROPHY; COGNITION DISORDERS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0035209029     PISSN: 13231316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1819.2001.00907.x     Document Type: Article

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