Memory complaints are frequent but qualitatively different in young and elderly healthy people

Gerontology

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 272-277

  Ginó, Sandra ^a,d   Mendes, Tiago ^a,b   Maroco, João ^c   Ribeiro, Filipa ^a,c   Schmand, Ben A ^e   De Mendonça, Alexandre ^a   Guerreiro, Manuela ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA MOLECULAR JOÃO LOBO ANTUNES   (Portugal)

^b Santa Maria Hospital   (Israel)

^c Superior Institute of Applied Psychology   (Israel)

^d National Epidemiological Program for Cerebral Palsy   (Portugal)

^e UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Depression; Memory complaints; Memory impairment; Subjective Memory Complaints scale

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CONFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SUBJECTIVE MEMORY COMPLAINTS SCALE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HUMANS; MEMORY DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PORTUGAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SELF CONCEPT; SEX FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77951877959     PISSN: 0304324X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000240048     Document Type: Article

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