The Aging Hippocampus: Cognitive, Biochemical and Structural Findings

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1344-1351

  Driscoll, Ira ^a,b,c   Hamilton, Derek A ^a   Petropoulos, Helen ^b   Yeo, Ronald A ^a   Brooks, William M ^b   Baumgartner, Richard N ^b   Sutherland, Robert J ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CELL DENSITY; CELL LOSS; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ASPARTIC ACID; CHOLINE; COGNITION; CREATINE; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURONS; ORGAN SIZE; SEX FACTORS; STATISTICS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0345707547     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhg081     Document Type: Article

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