Cognitive reserve in young and old healthy subjects: Differences and similarities in a testing-the-limits paradigm with DSST

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Zihl, Josef ^a,b   Fink, Thomas ^a   Pargent, Florian ^a   Ziegler, Matthias ^c   Bühner, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY   (Germany)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITIVE RESERVE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGIT SYMBOL SUBSTITUTION TEST; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOOD; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSONALITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; SHORT TERM MEMORY; VERBAL MEMORY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; COGNITION; COGNITIVE RESERVE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84896778841     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0084590     Document Type: Article

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