White matter changes and word finding failures with increasing age

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Stamatakis, Emmanuel A ^a,b   Shafto, Meredith A ^b   Williams, Guy ^c   Tam, Phyllis ^b   Tyler, Lorraine K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UK   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IN VIVO STUDY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NORMAL HUMAN; SCORING SYSTEM; TASK PERFORMANCE; WHITE MATTER; BRAIN MAPPING; MIDDLE AGED; MYELINATED NERVE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BRAIN MAPPING; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; SPEECH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79251567686     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0014496     Document Type: Article

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