Good news for elderly persons: Olfactory pleasure increases at later stages of the life span

Journals of Gerontology - Series A Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences

Volumn 62, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1287-1293

  Markovic, Katrin ^a,b   Reulbach, Udo ^a   Vassiliadu, Agapi ^a   Lunkenheimer, Jens ^a   Lunkenheimer, Birgit ^a   Spannenberger, Rita ^a   Thuerauf, Norbert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFESPAN; MALE; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SENSORY ANALYSIS; SEX RATIO; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

EID: 37349082237     PISSN: 10795006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gerona/62.11.1287     Document Type: Article

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