News of cognitive cure for age-related brain shrinkage is premature: A comment on Burgmans et al. (2009)

Neuropsychology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 255-257

  Raz, Naftali ^a   Lindenberger, Ulman ^b  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aging; Brain; Cognition; Longitudinal; MRI

Indexed keywords

AGING; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN SIZE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGING; ATROPHY; BRAIN; COGNITION DISORDERS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HUMANS;

EID: 77950271991     PISSN: 08944105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0018828     Document Type: Article

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