Working memory deficits in healthy APOE epsilon 4 carriers

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 566-573

  Reinvang, Ivar ^a   Winjevoll, Inger Lise ^a   Rootwelt, Helge ^b   Espeseth, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

APOE; Gender; Genetics; Inhibition; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; APOLIPOPROTEIN E4;

ADULT; AGED; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOTYPE; HEREDITY; HETEROZYGOTE; HORMONE ACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING TEST; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MYELINATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; SEX DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; APOLIPOPROTEIN E4; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 72449164563     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.10.018     Document Type: Article

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