Neuroscience
Au R, Seshadri S, Wolf P, Elias M, Elias P, Sullivan L, Beiser A, D'Agostino R. New norms for a new generation: Cognitive performance in the Framingham Offspring Cohort. Exp Aging Res. 2004 Oct-Dec; 30(4): 333-58.
Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
A previous publication presented normative data on neuropsychological tests stratified by age, gender, and education based on the Original Cohort of the Framingham Heart Study. Many contemporary investigations include subject samples with higher levels of education, a factor known to affect cognitive performance. Secular change in education prompted the reexamination of norms in the children of the Original Cohort. The study population consisted of 853 men and 988 women from the Offspring Study, free of clinical neurological disease, who underwent a neuropsychological examination, which included tests given to their parents in 1974 to 1976 as well as additional newer tests to provide a more comprehensive battery. The Offspring population overall was more evenly distributed by gender and better educated. Their performance on cognitive tests was superior to that of the Original Cohort. Multivariable analyses revealed that more years of education explained only a part of the cohort differences. These findings suggest that continued surveillance of each generation is necessary to document the impact that unique social and economic variables have on cognitive function. Here, the authors provide updated normative data.
PMID: 15371099 [PubMed - in process]
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Neuroscience
Abstract of the Day: Neuropsychological Assessment
Au R, Seshadri S, Wolf P, Elias M, Elias P, Sullivan L, Beiser A, D'Agostino R. New norms for a new generation: Cognitive performance in the Framingham Offspring Cohort. Exp Aging Res. 2004 Oct-Dec; 30(4): 333-58.
Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
A previous publication presented normative data on neuropsychological tests stratified by age, gender, and education based on the Original Cohort of the Framingham Heart Study. Many contemporary investigations include subject samples with higher levels of education, a factor known to affect cognitive performance. Secular change in education prompted the reexamination of norms in the children of the Original Cohort. The study population consisted of 853 men and 988 women from the Offspring Study, free of clinical neurological disease, who underwent a neuropsychological examination, which included tests given to their parents in 1974 to 1976 as well as additional newer tests to provide a more comprehensive battery. The Offspring population overall was more evenly distributed by gender and better educated. Their performance on cognitive tests was superior to that of the Original Cohort. Multivariable analyses revealed that more years of education explained only a part of the cohort differences. These findings suggest that continued surveillance of each generation is necessary to document the impact that unique social and economic variables have on cognitive function. Here, the authors provide updated normative data.
PMID: 15371099 [PubMed - in process]
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Cholerton BA, Zabetian CP, Quinn JF, Chung KA, Peterson A, Espay AJ, Revilla FJ, Devoto J, Watson GS, Hu SC, Edwards KL, Montine TJ, & Leverenz JB. (2013). Pacific northwest udall center of excellence clinical consortium: study design and baseline cohort...
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Psychometric data relevant to the use of common neuropsychological cognitive test instruments are presented and discussed in the current issue of the journal, The Clinical Neuropsychologist (Volume 19, Issue 3-4; September-December 2005). The issue deals...
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O'Sullivan M, Morris RG, & Markus HS. Brief cognitive assessment for patients with cerebral small vessel disease. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry. 2005 Aug; 76(8): 1140-1145. Division of Clinical Neuroscience, St George's Hospital...
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