Cognitive function: Its relationship with functional status, fitness, and vascular and cerebral blood flow

Topics in Geriatric Rehabilitation

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 33-41

  Marks, Bonita L ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebral blood flow; Cognitive function; Functional status; Older adults; Physical activity; Transcranial doppler

Indexed keywords

AGED; BLOOD VESSEL FUNCTION; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COST CONTROL; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FALLING; FITNESS; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR;

EID: 0036090596     PISSN: 08827524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00013614-200206000-00005     Document Type: Review

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