One-year brain atrophy evident in healthy aging

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 48, 2009, Pages 15223-15231

  Fjell, Anders M ^a   Walhovd, Kristine B ^a   Fennema Notestine, Christine ^b,c   McEvoy, Linda K ^b   Hagler, Donald J ^b   Holland, Dominic ^d   Brewer, James B ^b,d   Dale, Anders M ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FOURTH VENTRICLE; BRAIN SIZE; BRAIN STEM; BRAIN THIRD VENTRICLE; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; GRAY MATTER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; ORBITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; TEMPORAL CORTEX; THALAMUS; WHITE MATTER;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ATROPHY; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 72849117336     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3252-09.2009     Document Type: Article

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