Alzheimer's disease and intelligence

Current Alzheimer Research

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 345-353

  Yeo, R A ^a   Arden, R ^b   Jung, R E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Cognitive; G; Genetic; Intelligence; Metabolic; Mutation; Risk

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN METABOLISM; BRAIN SIZE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE RESERVE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEMENTIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE MARKER; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; HERITABILITY; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; INTELLIGENCE TEST; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; LEISURE; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIFESTYLE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; MORAY HOUSE TEST; MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PARIETAL LOBE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PSYCHOMETRY; REVIEW; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SUBICULUM; VERBAL MEMORY; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; COGNITION DISORDERS; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 79959336563     PISSN: 15672050     EISSN: 18755828     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/156720511795745276     Document Type: Review

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