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Cognitive discrepancies versus APOE genotype as predictors of cognitive decline in normal-functioning elderly individuals: a longitudinal study.
The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry - 1 May 2008
Fine Eric M, Delis Dean C, Wetter Spencer R, Jacobson Mark W, Jak Amy J, McDonald Carrie R, Braga Jodessa C, Thal Leon J, Salmon David P, Bondi Mark W
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OBJECTIVES: Cognitive-discrepancy analysis has been shown to be a useful technique for detecting subtle cognitive deficits in normal-functioning elderly individuals who are genetically at-risk for Alzheimer disease (AD). However, studies that have used cognitive-discrepancy measures to date have used retrospective or cross-sectional designs, and the utility of this approach to predict cognitive decline has not...
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