Sensitivity of four psychometric tests to measure cognitive changes in brain aging-population-based studies

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 165, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 344-350

  Proust Lima, Cécile ^a,b   Amieva, Hélène ^a,b   Dartigues, Jean François ^a,b   Jacqmin Gadda, Hélène ^a,b  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

Aging; Cognition; Dementia; Epidemiologic methods; Neuropsychological tests

Indexed keywords

AGING POPULATION; BRAIN; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPATIAL COGNITION; TESTING METHOD;

AGED; ARTICLE; BENTON VISUAL RETENTION TEST; BRAIN; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIGIT SYMBOL SUBSTITUTION TEST; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; ISAAC SET TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PSYCHOMETRY; SENESCENCE;

EID: 33846589298     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwk017     Document Type: Article

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