Performance of Cognitively Normal African Americans on the RBANS in Community Dwelling Older Adults

Clinical Neuropsychologist

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 515-530

  Patton, Doyle E ^a,b,e   Duff, Kevin ^c   Schoenberg, Mike R ^d   Mold, James ^a   Scott, James G ^a   Adams, Russell L ^a  

^a Dept of Psychiat and Behav Sci ^*  (United States)

^b INTEGRIS Jim Thorpe Rehabilitation Hospital   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DEMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; EDUCATION; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; REPEATABLE BATTERY FOR THE ASSESSMENT OF NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL STATUS; SEX RATIO; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COGNITION; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 1242269822     PISSN: 13854046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1076/clin.17.4.515.27948     Document Type: Article

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