Measuring cognitive reserve based on the decomposition of episodic memory variance

Brain

Volumn 133, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2196-2209

  Reed, Bruce R ^a,b   Mungas, Dan ^a   Farias, Sarah Tomaszewski ^a   Harvey, Danielle ^c   Beckett, Laurel ^c   Widaman, Keith ^c   Hinton, Ladson ^a   DeCarli, Charles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive ageing; Cognitive reserve; Dementia; Longitudinal change; Mild cognitive impairment; Neuropsychological tests

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; COGNITION; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEMENTIA; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; BRAIN; COGNITIVE DEFECT; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FOLLOW UP; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDER; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AGED; AGING; BRAIN; COGNITION; COGNITION DISORDERS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DEMENTIA; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDERS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ORGAN SIZE;

EID: 77957067341     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awq154     Document Type: Article

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