The Tasmanian Healthy Brain Project (THBP): A prospective longitudinal examination of the effect of university-level education in older adults in preventing age-related cognitive decline and reducing the risk of dementia

International Psychogeriatrics

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1145-1155

  Summers, Mathew J ^a   Saunders, Nichole L J ^a   Valenzuela, Michael J ^b   Summers, Jeffery J ^a   Ritchie, Karen ^c,d   Robinson, Andrew ^a   Vickers, James C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

age related cognitive decline; dementia; education

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE RESERVE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GERONTOPSYCHIATRY; HEREDITY; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; READING; RISK; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIALIZATION; VERBAL MEMORY; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION; WORKING MEMORY; BOSTON NAMING TEST; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPREHENSION TEST; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DIGITAL SPAN TEST; EDUCATION; HOSPITAL ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION SCALE; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LETTER NUMBER SEQUENCING TEST; LIFETIME EXPERIENCE QUESTIONNAIRE; LOGICAL MEMORY TEST; LUBBEN SOCIAL NETWORK SCALE; MATTIS DEMENTIA RATING SCALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIRED ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PAIRED ASSOCIATES LEARNING TEST; PERSONAL WELLBEING INDEX; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; REY AUDITORY VERBAL LEARNING TEST; REY COMPLEX FIGURE TEST; RISK REDUCTION; SPATIAL SPAN TEST; SPATIAL WORKING MEMORY TEST; STROOP TEST; UNIVERSITY; VOCABULARY TEST; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE; WECHSLER TEST OF ADULT READING; WELLBEING; AGE; AGING; AUSTRALIA; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICS;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; AUSTRALIA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COGNITION DISORDERS; COGNITIVE RESERVE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 84885462212     PISSN: 10416102     EISSN: 1741203X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1041610213000380     Document Type: Article

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