Gender differences in aging: Cognition, emotions, and neuroimaging studies

Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 197-210

  Gur, Raquel E ^a,b   Gur, Ruben C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Cognition; Emotion; Gender difference; Neuroimaging

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

AGING; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BLOOD OXYGENATION; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN METABOLISM; BRAIN PERFUSION; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; COGNITION; EMOTION; FRONTAL LOBE; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; HUMAN; LEARNING; NEUROANATOMY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RECEPTOR INTRINSIC ACTIVITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VERBAL MEMORY;

EID: 0038330632     PISSN: 12948322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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