Qualitative neuropsychological measures: Normative data on executive functioning tests from the Framingham offspring study

Experimental Aging Research

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 515-535

  Hankee, Lisa D ^a,b   Preis, Sarah R ^b,c   Beiser, Alexa S ^a,b,c   Devine, Sherral A ^a,b   Liu, Yulin ^a,b   Seshadri, Sudha ^a,b   Wolf, Philip A ^a,b   Au, Rhoda ^a,b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b FRAMINGHAM HEART STUDY   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

AGED; AGING; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS;

EID: 84887070732     PISSN: 0361073X     EISSN: 10964657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0361073X.2013.839029     Document Type: Article

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