Olfactory memory in the old and very old: Relations to episodic and semantic memory and APOE genotype

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 38, Issue , 2016, Pages 118-126

  Larsson, Maria ^a   Hedner, Margareta ^b   Papenberg, Goran ^b   Seubert, Janina ^b   Bäckman, Lars ^b   Laukka, Erika J ^b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Aging; APOE; Dedifferentiation; Memory; Olfaction

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E; APOLIPOPROTEIN E4;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; AUDITORY SYSTEM; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORMAL HUMAN; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; OLFACTORY MEMORY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SENESCENCE; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; SWEDE (PEOPLE); VERY ELDERLY; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL SYSTEM; ALLELE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDER; ODOR; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ALLELES; APOLIPOPROTEINS E; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDERS; MEMORY, EPISODIC; MIDDLE AGED; SMELL;

EID: 84962234712     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: 15581497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2015.11.012     Document Type: Article

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