Cognitive and neural signatures of the APOE E4 allele in mid-aged adults

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1615-1623

  Evans, Simon ^a   Dowell, Nicholas G ^b   Tabet, Naji ^b   Tofts, Paul S ^b   King, Sarah L ^a   Rusted, Jennifer M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b BRIGHTON AND SUSSEX MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aging; Alzheimer's disease; APOE; Attention; Imaging; Memory

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E4;

ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CELL ACTIVATION; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COVERT ATTENTION TASK; EXTRASTRIATE BODY AREA; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE CELL; NORMAL HUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL CORTEX; PLEIOTROPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE MEMORY; RAPID VISUAL INFORMATION PROCESSING TASK; RISK FACTOR; TASK PERFORMANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

AGING; ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE; APOE; ATTENTION; IMAGING; MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGING; ALLELES; APOLIPOPROTEIN E4; ATTENTION; COGNITION; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; NEURONS; PARIETAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84903372706     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: 15581497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2014.01.145     Document Type: Article

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