Sex differences in age-related motor slowing in the rhesus monkey: Behavioral and neuroimaging data

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 543-551

  Lacreuse, Agnès ^a   Diehl, Maria M ^a   Goh, Mark Y ^a   Hall, Marisa J ^a   Volk, Alyssa M ^a   Chhabra, Rashmeet K ^a   Herndon, James G ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Basal ganglia; Macaque; Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; RHESUS MONKEY; SEX DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AGING; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MACACA MULATTA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR SKILLS DISORDERS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 11844261267     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2004.05.007     Document Type: Article

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