Religious orders study: Overview and change in cognitive and motor speed

Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition

Volumn 11, Issue 2-3, 2004, Pages 280-303

  Wilson, Robert S ^a,b,c   Bienias, Julia L ^a,b   Evans, Denis A ^a,b   Bennett, David A ^a,b  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Department of Neurological Sciences ^*  (United States)

^c RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID; APOLIPOPROTEIN E; TAU PROTEIN;

AFFECT; AGED; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN INFARCTION; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CHRISTIAN; CLERGY; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL STUDY; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; DISABILITY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDIVIDUAL BASED POPULATION MODEL; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MOTOR SPEED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PARKINSON DISEASE; PERCEPTION; PERSONALITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PUBLICATION; REACTION TIME; RELIGIOUS GROUP; RELIGIOUS ORDERS STUDY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 6344278096     PISSN: 13825585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13825580490511125     Document Type: Review

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