Age and Education Effects on Relationships of Cognitive Test Scores With Brain Structure in Demographically Diverse Older Persons

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 116-128

  Mungas, Dan ^a   Reed, Bruce R ^b   Farias, Sarah Tomaszewski ^a   DeCarli, Charles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VA NORTHERN CALIFORNIA HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

age; education; ethnicity; neuropsychological tests; structural MRI

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; COGNITION; DEMENTIA; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; WHITE MATTER;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ATROPHY; BRAIN; COGNITION DISORDERS; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DEMENTIA; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ORGAN SIZE; PSYCHOMETRICS;

EID: 64649094190     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0013421     Document Type: Article

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