Memory performance and the growth hormone/insulin-like growth factor axis in elderly: A positron emission tomography study

Neuroendocrinology

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 31-40

  Arwert, Lucia I ^a,c   Veltman, Dick J ^b   Deijen, Jan Berend ^d   Lammertsma, Adriaan A ^b   Jonker, Cees ^c   Drent, Madeleine L ^a  

^a Department of Endocrinology ^*  (Netherlands)

^b PET Center   (United States)

^c VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aging; Clinical neuroendocrinology; Cognition; Growth hormone; Insulin like growth factor I; Positron emission tomography; Prefrontal cortex; Premotor cortex; Regional cerebral blood flow; Working memory

Indexed keywords

GROWTH HORMONE; SOMATOMEDIN C;

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RESPONSE TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; VELOCITY; WORKING MEMORY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REACTION TIME; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 20944442023     PISSN: 00283835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000084872     Document Type: Article

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