Memory activation in healthy nonagenarians

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 515-523

  Beeri, Michal Schnaider ^a   Lee, Hedok ^a   Cheng, Hu ^b   Wollman, Daniel ^c   Silverman, Jeremy M ^a   Prohovnik, Isak ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain activation; Cognitive reserve; Functional MRI; Nonagenarians

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL TASK; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL STATUS SCHEDULE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN;

EID: 79952897783     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2009.02.022     Document Type: Article

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