Sleep-dependent memory consolidation in healthy aging and mild cognitive impairment

Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences

Volumn 25, Issue , 2015, Pages 307-330

  Pace Schott, Edward F ^a   Spencer, Rebecca M C ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COGNITION; DECLARATIVE MEMORY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DEMENTIA; HUMAN; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REM SLEEP; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SLEEP; SLEEP DISORDER; SLEEP QUALITY; SLEEP SPINDLE; WORKING MEMORY; AGED; MEMORY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

AGED; AGING; HUMANS; MEMORY; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; SLEEP; SLEEP DISORDERS;

EID: 84929613629     PISSN: 18663370     EISSN: 18663389     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/7854_2014_300     Document Type: Article

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