Trail Making Test performance in a community-based sample of healthy very old adults: Effects of age on completion time, but not on accuracy

Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 87-102

  Wahlin, Tarja Brita Robins ^a   Bäckman, Lars ^a,b,c   Wahlin, Åke ^a   Winblad, Bengt ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c STOCKHOLM GERONTOLOGY RESEARCH CENTER   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Motor functions of the hands; Normal aging; Trail making test

Indexed keywords

THYROTROPIN;

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COGNITION; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; VISION;

EID: 17344379484     PISSN: 01674943     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0167-4943(95)00681-8     Document Type: Article

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