Cognitive Reserve-Mediated Modulation of Positron Emission Tomographic Activations during Memory Tasks in Alzheimer Disease

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 73-78

  Scarmeas, Nikolaos ^a,c   Zarahn, Eric ^a   Anderson, Karen E ^b   Honig, Lawrence S ^a   Park, Aileen ^a   Hilton, John ^a   Flynn, Joseph ^a   Sackeim, Harold A ^a   Stern, Yaakov ^a  

^a Coll of Phys/Surg Columbia Univ ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADAPTATION; ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; MEMORY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0346688730     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.61.1.73     Document Type: Article

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