Cerebellar brain volume accounts for variance in cognitive performance in older adults

Cortex

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 441-450

  Hogan, Michael J ^a   Staff, Roger T ^b   Bunting, Brendan P ^c   Murray, Alison D ^d   Ahearn, Trevor S ^d   Deary, Ian J ^e   Whalley, Lawrence J ^d  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b ABERDEEN ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ageing; Cerebellum; Cognition; Frontal lobes

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CEREBELLUM; COGNITION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NORMAL HUMAN; SCORING SYSTEM; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SKULL; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELLING; TOTAL INTRACRANIAL VOLUME; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 79851508737     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 00109452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2010.01.001     Document Type: Article

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