Premorbid personality traits and their course in mild cognitive impairment: Results from a prospective population-based study in Germany

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 171-177

  Kuzma, E ^a   Sattler, C ^a   Toro, P ^a   Schonknecht P ^a   Schroder J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Mild cognitive impairment; Personality traits; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRAVERSION; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NEUROSIS; PERSONALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR;

AGED; AGING; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; NEUROTIC DISORDERS; ODDS RATIO; PERSONALITY; POPULATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 80054076541     PISSN: 14208008     EISSN: 14219824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000332082     Document Type: Article

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