Effects of education and race on cognitive decline: An integrative study of generalizability versus study-specific results

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 863-880

  Gross, Alden L ^a   Crane, Paul K ^c   Gibbons, Laura E ^c   Manly, Jennifer J ^e   Romero, Heather ^f   Thomas, Michael ^b   Mungas, Dan M ^b   MacKay Brandt, Anna ^d   Mukherjee, Shubhabrata ^c   Sachs, Bonnie ^g   Potter, Guy G ^f   Jones, Richard N ^h  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^e Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons   (United States)

^f DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^g WAKE FOREST BAPTIST HEALTH   (United States)

^h BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive performance; Cognitive trajectory; Confirmatory factor analysis; Harmonization; Item response theory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COHORT ANALYSIS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNICITY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RACE; AGING; CAUCASIAN; COGNITION; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; HISPANIC; LANGUAGE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY; WASHINGTON;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; COGNITION; COGNITION DISORDERS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WASHINGTON;

EID: 84946059161     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: 19391498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/pag0000032     Document Type: Article

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