Association of life activities with cerebral blood flow in Alzheimer disease: Implications for the cognitive reserve hypothesis

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 359-365

  Scarmeas, Nikolaos ^a,b,c   Zarahn, Eric ^b   Anderson, Karen E ^b   Habeck, Christian G ^a   Hilton, John ^a   Flynn, Joseph ^a   Marder, Karen S ^b   Bell, Karen L ^b   Sackeim, Harold A ^b   Van Heertum, Ronald L ^b   Moeller, James R ^b   Stern, Yaakov ^a,b  

^a Inst Res Alzheimer Dis/Ag Brain   (United States)

^b Surgeons of Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^c New York Presbyterian Hospital Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; COVARIANCE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDUCATION; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LIFE EVENT; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; COGNITION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEISURE ACTIVITIES; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0037335703     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.60.3.359     Document Type: Article

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