Attention and executive control predict Alzheimer disease in late life: Results from the Berlin Aging Study (BASE)

American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 134-141

  Rapp, Michael A ^a,c   Reischies, Friedel M ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY RECALL; AGED; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGIT LETTER TEST; DIGIT SYMBOL SUBSTITUTION TEST; FEMALE; HUMAN; IDENTICAL PICTURES TEST; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PAIRED ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PREDICTION; RECALL; SURVIVAL; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRAILMAKING PART B TEST; VALIDATION PROCESS; AGE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COGNITIVE DEFECT; FOLLOW UP; LEARNING; MEMORY DISORDER; ONSET AGE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

AGE FACTORS; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ATTENTION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MENTAL RECALL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 19844363774     PISSN: 10647481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00019442-200502000-00007     Document Type: Article

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