Processing speed and longitudinal trajectories of change for cognitive abilities: The Swedish Adoption/Twin Study of Aging

Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition

Volumn 11, Issue 2-3, 2004, Pages 325-345

  Finkel, Deborah ^a   Pedersen, Nancy L ^b,c  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SOUTHEAST   (United States)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; CLINICAL STUDY; COGNITION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GROWTH CURVE; HEREDITY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PUBLICATION; QUANTITATIVE GENETICS; REACTION TIME; REVIEW; SEQUENTIAL ANALYSIS; SMELLING; SWEDEN; SWEDISH ADOPTION TWIN STUDY OF AGING; TWINS;

EID: 6344287317     PISSN: 13825585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13825580490511152     Document Type: Review

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