Principal Investigators
Martin van Boxtel, MD, PhD
Alzheimer Center Limburg
School for Mental Health and Neuroscience
Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology
Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences
Maastricht University
PO Box 616
6200 MD Maastricht
The Netherlands
Email: martin.vanboxtel@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Sebastian Köhler, PhD
Alzheimer Center Limburg
School for Mental Health and Neuroscience
Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology
Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences
Maastricht University
PO Box 616
6200 MD Maastricht
The Netherlands
Email: s.koehler@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Data Contact
Sebastian Köhler
Email: s.koehler@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Summary
| Setting: | South Limburg, The Netherlands |
| Start Date: | 1993 |
| End Date: | 2010 |
| Participants: | 1823 individuals aged 24-81 years (baseline) |
| Assessment Schedule: | Full assessments at basline, and after 6 and 12 years. Additional full assessment 45+ after 3 years. Questionnaires only after 9 years. |
| Measures: | (1) Neuropsychiatric assessments assessing dementia, MCI and cognitive decline; (2) Broad range of sociodemographic, lifestyle and physical and mental health factors; (3) Subgroups with blood samples and genotyping, structural MRI scans
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Further Information
- http://breinweb.nl/maas/
- Köhler S, Baars MAE, Spauwen S, Verhey FRJ, van Boxtel MJP (2014). Temporal evolution of cognitive changes in incident hypertension: prospective cohort study across the adult age span. Hypertension, 63, 245-51.
- Jolles J, Houx PJ, van Boxtel MJP, Ponds RWHM (1995). The Maastricht Aging Study: determinants of cognitive ageing. Neuropsych Publishers Maastricht.
