Leisure activity, health, and medical correlates of neurocognitive performance among monozygotic twins: The older Australian twins study

Journals of Gerontology - Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 514-522

  Lee, Teresa ^a,b   Lipnicki, Darren M ^a   Crawford, John D ^a   Henry, Julie D ^c   Trollor, Julian N ^a,d   Ames, David ^e   Wright, Margaret J ^c,f   Sachdev, Perminder S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b PRINCE OF WALES HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^f QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aging; Cognition; Health; Leisure activity; Twins

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COGNITION; FEMALE; GENETICS; HEALTH; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; LEISURE; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICS; TWINS; TWINS.; VERY ELDERLY;

AGING; COGNITION; HEALTH; LEISURE ACTIVITY; TWINS.;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; AUSTRALIA; COGNITION; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LEISURE ACTIVITIES; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 84892721251     PISSN: 10795014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/geronb/gbt031     Document Type: Article

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