Memory and executive function in older adults: Relationships with temporal and prefrontal gray matter volumes and white matter hyperintensities

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1313-1335

  Van Petten, Cyma ^a   Plante, Elena ^b   Davidson, Patrick S R ^a   Kuo, Trudy Y ^a   Bajuscak, Leslie ^b   Glisky, Elizabeth L ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Elderly; Gray matter; Magnetic resonance (MR)

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GRAY MATTER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MEMORY; NEOCORTEX; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; TEMPORAL CORTEX; WHITE MATTER;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REFERENCE VALUES; TELENCEPHALON; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 2942544464     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2004.02.009     Document Type: Article

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