Motor control and aging: Links to age-related brain structural, functional, and biochemical effects

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 721-733

  Seidler, Rachael D ^a,b,c   Bernard, Jessica A ^a   Burutolu, Taritonye B ^a   Fling, Brett W ^a   Gordon, Mark T ^a   Gwin, Joseph T ^a   Kwak, Youngbin ^b   Lipps, David B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Cognition; Dopamine; Exercise; fMRI; Motor performance; Plasticity; Rehabilitation

Indexed keywords

CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; LEVODOPA; NEUROTRANSMITTER;

AGING; ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY DEVICE; BALANCE IMPAIRMENT; BASAL GANGLION; BIOCHEMISTRY; BODY MOVEMENT; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COORDINATION DISORDER; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DEMENTIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; EXERCISE; FUNCTIONAL TRAINING; GAIT DISORDER; HUMAN; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

AGING; ANIMALS; BRAIN; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTOR SKILLS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 77949304859     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2009.10.005     Document Type: Review

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