Age in high-functioning healthy men is associated with nonlinear decline in some 'executive' functions in late middle age

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 292-300

  Silver, Henry ^a,b   Goodman, Craig ^a   Bilker, Warren ^c  

^a SHA'AR MENASHE MENTAL HEALTH CENTER   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognition; Cognitive impairment; Frontal function; Normal aging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL FUNCTION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMOTOR ACTIVITY; VERBAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WECHSLER SCALES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 60749110375     PISSN: 14208008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000204916     Document Type: Article

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