Intellect declines in healthy elderly subjects and cerebellum

Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 45-51

  Lee, Jun Young ^a   Lyoo, In Kyoon ^a   Kim, Seon Uk ^b   Jang, Hong Suk ^a   Lee, Dong Woo ^c   Jeon, Hong Jin ^a   Park, Sang Chul ^a   Cho, Maeng Je ^a  

^a Seoul National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Eulji University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^c Inje University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Aging; Cerebellum; Cognition; Intelligence; Magnetic resonance imaging; Voxel based morphometry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN CORTEX; CEREBELLUM; COGNITION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FRONTAL LOBE ATROPHY; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTELLECT; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE TEST; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERFORMANCE; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

AGED; AGING; ATROPHY; CEREBELLUM; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INTELLIGENCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMETRICS; STATISTICS; WECHSLER SCALES;

EID: 14644402327     PISSN: 13231316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1819.2005.01330.x     Document Type: Article

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