Timed Up and Go test, atrophy of medial temporal areas and cognitive functions in community-dwelling older adults with normal cognition and mild cognitive impairment

Article ID	Journal	Published Year	Pages	File Type
5501590	Experimental Gerontology	2016	27 Pages	PDF

Abstract

Worse TUG performance is related to poor performance on TMT-A and TMT-B, and is independently associated with severe medial temporal area atrophy in community-dwelling older adults.

Keywords

VSRAD CDR MMSE WMS-R Wechsler Memory Scale-Revised MTA TMT-B TMT-A mild cognitive impairment Clinical Dementia Rating MRI Magnetic resonance imaging TUG Community-dwelling older adults Timed Up and Go Mini-Mental State Examination MEDIAL TEMPORAL AREA MCI

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Timed Up and Go test, atrophy of medial temporal areas and cognitive functions in community-dwelling older adults with normal cognition and mild cognitive impairment

Authors

Yujiro Kose, Masahiro Ikenaga, Yosuke Yamada, Kazuhiro Morimura, Noriko Takeda, Shinji Ouma, Yoshio Tsuboi, Tatsuo Yamada, Misaka Kimura, Akira Kiyonaga, Yasuki Higaki, Hiroaki Tanaka, for the Nakagawa Study Group for the Nakagawa Study Group,