Regional brain changes in aging healthy adults: General trends, individual differences and modifiers

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1676-1689

  Raz, Naftali ^a   Lindenberger, Ulman ^b,c   Rodrigue, Karen M ^a   Kennedy, Kristen M ^a   Head, Denise ^d   Williamson, Adrienne ^e   Dahle, Cheryl ^a   Gerstorf, Denis ^b   Acker, James D ^f  

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

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^c SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e University of Memphis   (United States)

^f BAPTIST MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cortex; Hippocampus; Hypertension; Latent change models; White matter

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NEUROPROTECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX RATIO; TEMPORAL CORTEX; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BODY CONSTITUTION; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 23444441331     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhi044     Document Type: Article

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