TY - GEN AU - Osama Refaat Ibrahim AU - Samia Abd El elrahman Ahmed , AU - Suaad Sayed Moussa , AU - Zynab Abd El salam Sarhan , TI - Cognitive functioning in elderly community dwelling egyptians : : Psychiatric study / PY - 2007/// CY - Cairo : PB - Osama Refaat Ibrahim , KW - CAMCOG KW - Cognitive decline KW - Elderly KW - Estradiol KW - Gender differences KW - Testosterone N1 - Thesis (PH.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty Of Medicine - Department Of Neuropsychiatry; Issued also as CD N2 - Changes in the aging brain had become of great interest because of the marked increase in the number of elderly people There are gender differences in age - related cognitive changes , however , and the factors that contribute to this variability have not been well - characterized Recent evidences suggest that age - related alterations in the endocrine environment may modulate cognitive functioning This wok aims at investigating the gender differences in cognitive functions in community - dwelling elderly men and women , and to find out the relation between the estradiol and testosterone plasma levels and changes in certain cognitive functions ER -