Measures of cognitive reserve in Alzheimer's disease

INTRODUCTION: Cognitive reserve (CR), a hypothetical construct used to obtain information about cognitive aging, describes the capacity of the adult brain to cope with the effects of neurodegenerative processes. This study evaluated CR using a CR questionnaire (CRQ) and a set of variables (education...

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Main Authors: Margarida Sobral, Maria Helena Pestana, Constança Paúl
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação de Psiquiatria do Rio Grande do Sul 2014-09-01
Series:Trends in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S2237-60892014000300160&lng=en&tlng=en