Evaluation of mini-mental state examination scores according to different age and education strata, and sex, in a large Brazilian healthy sample;Avaliação dos escores do Mini-Exame do Estado Mental de acordo com diferentes faixas de idade e escolaridade, e sexo, em uma grande amostra brasileira de sujeitos saudá

Dementia e Neuropsychologia

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 88-93

  Kochhann, Renata ^a   Cerveira, Maria Otília ^a   Godinho, Cláudia ^a   Camozzato, Analuiza ^a   Chaves, Márcia Lorena F ^b  

^a HOSPITAL DE CLÍNICAS DE PORTO ALEGRE   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Age; Cognition; Cognitive assessment; Educational attainment; Mini mental state examination; Sex

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952905692     PISSN: 19805764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S1980-57642009DN30200004     Document Type: Article

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