A close relationship between verbal memory and SN/VTA integrity in young and older adults

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 46, Issue 13, 2008, Pages 3042-3052

  Düzel, Sandra ^a   Schütze, Hartmut ^a   Stallforth, Sabine ^a   Kaufmann, Jörn ^a   Bodammer, Nils ^a   Bunzeck, Nico ^b   Münte, Thomas F ^a   Lindenberger, Ulman ^c   Heinze, Hans Jochen ^a   Düzel, Emrah ^a,b  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; CVLT; Diffusion; Hippocampus; Substantia nigra VTA; Verbal memory; White matter integrity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NEUROMODULATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SEX DIFFERENCE; VERBAL MEMORY; WATER CONTENT; WHITE MATTER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 50549103823     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2008.06.001     Document Type: Article

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