Better verbal memory in women than men in MCI despite similar levels of hippocampal atrophy

Neurology

Volumn 86, Issue 15, 2016, Pages 1368-1376

  Sundermann, Erin E ^a   Biegon, Anat ^b   Rubin, Leah H ^c   Lipton, Richard B ^a   Mowrey, Wenzhu ^a   Landau, Susan ^d   Maki, Pauline M ^c  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; COGNITIVE RESERVE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPAL VOLUME INTRACRANIAL VOLUME RATIO; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; REY AUDITORY VERBAL LEARNING TEST; SEX DIFFERENCE; VERBAL MEMORY; ATROPHY; COGNITIVE DEFECT; LEARNING; MEMORY; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATROPHY; COGNITIVE DYSFUNCTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 84964887215     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000002570     Document Type: Article

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