Long-term measures of free testosterone predict regional cerebral blood flow patterns in elderly men

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 914-920

  Moffat, Scott D ^a,b   Resnick, Susan M ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Aging; Neuroimaging; Regional cerebral blood flow; Steroid hormones PET; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CINGULATE GYRUS; COGNITION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FRONTAL CORTEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; RISK REDUCTION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SUBICULUM; TASK PERFORMANCE; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; THALAMUS;

AGED; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMMUNOASSAY; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TESTOSTERONE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 34247094240     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2006.04.001     Document Type: Article

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