What provides cerebral reserve?

Brain

Volumn 127, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1191-1199

  Staff, Roger T ^a   Murray, Alison D ^a   Deary, Ian J ^c   Whalley, Lawrence J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b Clinical Research Centre   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cerebral reserve; Childhood intelligence; Education; Head size; Occupation

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; BRAIN CIRCULATION; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN SIZE; CEREBRAL RESERVE; CHILDHOOD; COGNITION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HEAD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; INTELLECT; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL CAPACITY; MENTAL HEALTH; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCUPATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AGED; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; COGNITION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTELLIGENCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SELECTION BIAS;

EID: 2442419156     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awh144     Document Type: Review

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