Successful aging in a 70-year-old man with down syndrome: A case study

Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 215-228

  Krinsky McHale, Sharon J ^a   Devenny, Darlynne A ^a   Gu, Hong ^a   Jenkins, Edmund C ^a   Kittler, Phyllis ^a   Murty, Vundavalli V ^b   Schupf, Nicole ^c   Scotto, Luigi ^b   Tycko, Benjamin ^b   Urv, Tiina K ^d   Ye, Lingling ^a   Zigman, Warren B ^a   Silverman, Wayne ^e  

^a NEW YORK STATE INSTITUTE FOR BASIC RESEARCH IN DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES   (United States)

^b New York Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital   (United States)

^c Department of Epidemiology   (United States)

^d EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COGNITION; CYTOGENETICS; DOWN SYNDROME; GENETICS; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ACHIEVEMENT; AGED; AGING; COGNITION; CYTOGENETICS; DOWN SYNDROME; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 50949126647     PISSN: 19349556     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1352/2008.46:215-228     Document Type: Article

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