The associations between proxy measures of cognitive reserve (CR) and cognition vary
across studies and cognitive domains. This meta-analysis aimed to assess the relationship …

Clinical neuropsychology has frequently considered visuospatial and non-verbal tests to be
culturally and educationally fair or at least fairer than verbal tests. This paper reviews the …

Objective. To design a brief cognitive screener with acceptable sensitivity and specificity for
identifying subjects with cognitive impairment Design. Cohort one is assembled from a …

Declines in heart disease and stroke mortality rates are conventionally attributed to
reductions in cigarette smoking, recognition and treatment of hypertension and diabetes …

The current study sought to determine if discrepancies in quality of education could explain
differences in cognitive test scores between African American and White elders matched on …

Letter and category fluency tasks are used to assess semantic knowledge, retrieval ability,
and executive functioning. They appear to be useful in detecting different types of dementia …

The Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer's Disease (CERAD) was funded by the
National Institute on Aging in 1986 to develop standardized, validated measures for the …

The development of Alzheimer's disease (AD) later in life may be reflective of environmental
factors operating over the course of a lifetime. Educational and occupational attainments …

The objective of this study was to determine a possible differential effect of age, education,
and sex on cognitive speed, verbal memory, executive functioning, and verbal fluency in …

ContextAlzheimer disease (AD) represents a major and increasing public health problem. If
populations were identified with significantly lower or higher incidence rates of AD, the …