High consistency of regional cortical thinning in aging across multiple samples

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2001-2012

  Fjell, Anders M ^a,b   Westlye, Lars T ^a   Amlien, Inge ^a   Espeseth, Thomas ^a   Reinvang, Ivar ^a   Raz, Naftali ^c   Agartz, Ingrid ^a,d,e   Salat, David H ^f   Greve, Doug N ^f   Fischl, Bruce ^f,g   Dale, Anders M ^h,i,j   Walhovd, Kristine B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b ULLEVÅL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^c WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d DIAKONHJEMMET HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^e KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^f MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^g MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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Author keywords

Aging; Cortex; Frontal lobes; Morphometry; MRI

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; COGNITION; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MORPHOMETRICS; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANATOMY, CROSS-SECTIONAL; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67650469452     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhn232     Document Type: Article

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