Memory performance and mild cognitive impairment in black and white community elders

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 381-388

  McDougall Jr , Graham J ^a   Vaughan, Phillip W ^a   Acee, Taylor W ^a   Becker, Heather ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Blacks; Depression; Memory performance; Mild cognitive impairment (MCI); Older adults

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDUCATION; ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MEMORY DISORDER; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NEGRO; SYMPTOM;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEMENTIA; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS;

EID: 34447520304     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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