Cerebral dysfunction and intellectual impairment in old age.
There is a marked decline in some intellectual abilities in old age. It is frequently hypothesized that impaired cerebral physiology accounts for some of this deficit. In old age the critical flicker frequency, a measure sensitive to cerebral dysfunction, is correlated with aging intellectual abilities. This is interpreted as evidence supporting the above hypothesis.
D000375:Aging; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D001927:Brain Diseases; D005853:Geriatrics; D006801:Humans; D007360:Intelligence; D001523:Mental Disorders; D009424:Nervous System Physiological Phenomena
BRAIN/physiology; GERIATRICS; INTELLIGENCE