Blood Pressure and Cognitive Function: The Role of Central Aortic and Brachial Pressures

Psychological Science

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2173-2181

  Pase, Matthew P ^a   Stough, Con ^a   Grima, Natalie A ^b   Harris, Elizabeth ^a   Macpherson, Helen ^a   Scholey, Andrew B ^a   Pipingas, Andrew ^a  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

blood pressure; brain; central pressure; cognition; cognitive ability; cognitive neuroscience; dementia; hypertension; nervous system disorders; pulse pressure amplification

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BRAIN; CENTRAL PRESSURE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE ABILITY; COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE; DEMENTIA; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISORDERS; PHYSIOLOGY; PULSE-PRESSURE AMPLIFICATION; RECOGNITION; STROOP TEST; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN; CENTRAL PRESSURE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE ABILITY; COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE; DEMENTIA; HYPERTENSION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISORDERS; PULSE-PRESSURE AMPLIFICATION;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION; COGNITION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); STROOP TEST; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84887330853     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797613488602     Document Type: Article

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