Female advantage in verbal memory

Neurology

Volumn 87, Issue 18, 2016, Pages 1916-1924

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

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E4; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; GLUCOSE; APOLIPOPROTEIN E;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE RESERVE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLIC RATE; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; REY AUDITORY VERBAL LEARNING TEST; SEX DIFFERENCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VERBAL MEMORY; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; GENETICS; LEARNING; MENTAL HEALTH; METABOLISM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; VERY ELDERLY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; APOLIPOPROTEINS E; COGNITION DISORDERS; COGNITIVE RESERVE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MENTAL STATUS SCHEDULE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 84994091903     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000003288     Document Type: Article

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