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Sex and APOE: A memory advantage in male APOE ε4 carriers in midlife.
Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior - 1 Mar 2017
Zokaei Nahid, Giehl Kathrin, Sillence Annie, Neville Matt J, Karpe Fredrik, Nobre Anna C, Husain Masud
Abstract excerpt
Short-term memory in middle-aged individuals with different APOE alleles was examined using a recently developed task which is sensitive to medial temporal lobe (MTL) damage. Individuals (age-range: 40-51 years) with ε3/ε3, ε3/ε4 and ε4/ε4 APOE genotypes (N = 60) performed a delayed estimation task with a sensitive continuous measure of report. The paradigm allowed us to measure memory for items and their...
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