Article
Age and dementia effect on neuropsychological test performance in very old age--influence of risk factors for dementia.
Journal of neural transmission. Supplementum - 1 Jan 1998
Reischies F M, Felsenberg D, Gessner R, Kage A, Rossius W, Schlattmann P
Abstract excerpt
In old age a large part of the variance in cognitive performance in population samples is explained by normal aging; in addition many subjects over 80 years are demented and therefore dementia also explains a part of cognitive variability. The question is whether the different factors for dementi...
Topics
- Adult
- Aged
- Aged, 80 and over
- Apolipoprotein E4
- Apolipoproteins E
- Atrophy
- Brain
- Cognition Disorders
- Dementia
- Female
- Genotype
- Germany
- Humans
- Male
- Mental Status Schedule
- Middle Aged
- Neuropsychological Tests
- Regression Analysis
