Age and education effects and norms on a cognitive test battery from a population-based cohort: The Monongahela-Youghiogheny Healthy Aging Team

Aging and Mental Health

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 100-107

  Ganguli, Mary ^a,b   Snitz, Beth E ^a   Lee, Ching Wen ^a   Vanderbilt, Joni ^a   Saxton, Judith A ^a   Chang, Chung Chou H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Community; Epidemiology; Neuropsychological tests; Normative

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COHORT ANALYSIS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COGNITION DISORDERS; COHORT STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PENNSYLVANIA;

EID: 77149143208     PISSN: 13607863     EISSN: 13646915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13607860903071014     Document Type: Article

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