Advancing age, impending death, and declining cognition

Neurology

Volumn 71, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 874-875

  Wilson, Robert S ^a  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E4;

AGED; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEATH; DEMENTIA; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INCIDENCE; LEWY BODY; LIFE SATISFACTION; MENTAL DETERIORATION; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; VASCULAR DISEASE; DISEASE COURSE; MORTALITY; NOTE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL;

AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; COGNITION DISORDERS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 54049119712     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000325993.99091.3f     Document Type: Editorial

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