Cognitive reserve and lifestyle

Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 625-633

  Scarmeas, Nikolaos ^a,b   Stern, Yaakov ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN METABOLISM; BRAIN OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; COGNITION; COGNITIVE RESERVE; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEMENTIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LEISURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL RATE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN; COGNITION; COGNITION DISORDERS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EXERCISE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE NET; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; RECRUITMENT, NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0038691836     PISSN: 13803395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1076/jcen.25.5.625.14576     Document Type: Review

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