Vulnerability of the orbitofrontal cortex to age-associated structural and functional brain changes

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1121, Issue , 2007, Pages 562-575

  Resnick, Susan M ^a   Lamar, Melissa ^b   Driscoll, Ira ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aging; Cognition; Longitudinal studies; MRI; Orbitofrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEMENTIA; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPATHOLOGY; ORBITAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 37549071771     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1401.027     Document Type: Conference Paper

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