Training-induced brain structure changes in the elderly

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 28, 2008, Pages 7031-7035

  Boyke, Janina ^a   Driemeyer, Joenna ^a   Gaser, Christian ^b   Büchel, Christian ^a   May, Arne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Age; Brain; Hippocampus; Learning; Plasticity; Voxel based morphometry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGING; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKILL; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TRAINING; VISUAL CORTEX; AGED; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TEACHING;

AGED; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TEACHING;

EID: 49049113735     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0742-08.2008     Document Type: Article

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