Balance marks cognitive changes in old age because it reflects global brain atrophy and cerebro-arterial blood-flow

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1978-1983

  Rabbitt, P M ^a   Scott, M ^c   Thacker, N ^c   Lowe, C ^b   Horan, M ^d   Pendleton, N ^d   Hutchinson, D ^c   Jackson, A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c MANCHESTER ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^d HOPE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Balance; Biological markers; Blood flow; Cognition; Global atrophy

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; BRAIN ARTERY; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; BRAIN SIZE; COGNITION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTELLIGENCE TEST; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL CAPACITY; MENTAL TEST; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; REACTION TIME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATROPHY; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BRAIN; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; COGNITION; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33745246561     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2005.08.017     Document Type: Article

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