Maximum (prior) brain size, not atrophy, correlates with cognition in community-dwelling older people: A cross-sectional neuroimaging study

BMC Geriatrics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Shenkin, Susan D ^a   Rivers, Carly S ^a,b   Deary, Ian J ^a   Starr, John M ^a   Wardlaw, Joanna M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN SIZE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SENESCENCE; AGE; AGING; ATROPHY; BRAIN; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ATROPHY; BRAIN; COGNITION; COGNITION DISORDERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ORGAN SIZE; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 65549132966     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2318-9-12     Document Type: Article

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