Greater intake of vitamins B6 and B12 spares gray matter in healthy elderly: A voxel-based morphometry study

Brain Research

Volumn 1199, Issue , 2008, Pages 20-26

  Erickson, Kirk I ^a   Suever, Barbara L ^a   Prakash, Ruchika Shaurya ^a   Colcombe, Stanley J ^b   McAuley, Edward ^a   Kramer, Arthur F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aging; Brain; Homocysteine; MRI; VBM; Vitamin B12; Vitamin B6

Indexed keywords

CYANOCOBALAMIN; FOLIC ACID; HOMOCYSTEINE; PYRIDOXINE;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BRAIN; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CALORIC INTAKE; CINGULATE GYRUS; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIET; EDUCATION; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FRONTAL LOBE; GENDER; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SUBICULUM; TECHNIQUE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TEMPORAL LOBE; VITAMIN INTAKE; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 40049087158     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2008.01.030     Document Type: Article

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