Age-Associated Losses of Brain Volume Predict Longitudinal Cognitive Declines Over 8 to 20 Years

Neuropsychology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 3-9

  Rabbitt, Patrick ^a   Ibrahim, Said ^b   Lunn, Mary ^a   Scott, Marietta ^c   Thacker, Neil ^c   Hutchinson, Charles ^c   Horan, Michael ^b   Pendleton, Neil ^b   Jackson, Alan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

age; brain volume; cognition; decline; longitudinal

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN SIZE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; COGNITIVE DEFECT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BRAIN; COGNITION; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 39049089487     PISSN: 08944105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0894-4105.22.1.3     Document Type: Article

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