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Commentary on “The NIH Cognitive and Emotional Health Project. Report of the Critical Evaluation Study Committee”
Author(s) -
Kuller Lewis H.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
alzheimer's and dementia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 6.713
H-Index - 118
eISSN - 1552-5279
pISSN - 1552-5260
DOI - 10.1016/j.jalz.2005.12.005
Subject(s) - citation , library science , psychology , public health , gerontology , medicine , computer science , nursing
Cognitive and emotional health, especially of older individuals, has become increasingly important because of the increasing life expectancy and the growing population of older individuals. The report is a comprehensive review of primarily studies of determinants of cognitive and emotional or mental health changes through older ages. The report documents many studies and a large number of potential risk factors. The report has a major flaw in that it fails to attempt to synthesize the information into a coherent picture that would be suitable for hypothesis testing. Human population, especially epidemiologic, studies are a relatively weak tool for measuring normality or average distribution of change because of substantial within-individual variability and selectiv elos st ofollow-u p[1].