Shrinkage of the Entorhinal Cortex over Five Years Predicts Memory Performance in Healthy Adults

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 956-963

  Rodrigue, Karen M ^a   Raz, Naftali ^a,b  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Hippocampus; Longitudinal studies; Magnetic resonance imaging; Medial temporal lobe; Memory; Prefrontal cortex; Volumetry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; COGNITION; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERFORMANCE; PREDICTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; TEMPORAL LOBE; VOLUMETRY;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REFERENCE VALUES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0742305187     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4166-03.2004     Document Type: Article

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