Corpus callosum size correlates with asymmetric performance on a dichotic listening task in healthy aging but not in Alzheimer's disease

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 208-217

  Gootjes, L ^a,c   Bouma, A ^b   Van Strien, J W ^c   Schijndel, R Van ^d   Barkhof, F ^d   Scheltens, Ph ^e  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Callosal functioning; Ear asymmetry; Hemispheric laterality; MRI; Subjective memory complaints

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY LATERALIZATION; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DICHOTIC LISTENING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATROPHY; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DICHOTIC LISTENING TESTS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; REFERENCE VALUES; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 28444451159     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2005.05.002     Document Type: Article

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