Entorhinal cortex volume is associated with episodic memory related brain activation in normal aging and amnesic mild cognitive impairment

Brain Imaging and Behavior

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 126-136

  Trivedi, Mehul A ^a   Stoub, Travis R ^a   Murphy, Christopher M ^a   George, Sarah ^a   deToledo Morrell, Leyla ^a   Shah, Raj C ^b   Whitfield Gabrieli, Susan ^c   Gabrieli, John D E ^c   Stebbins, Glenn T ^a  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

fMRI; Frontal cortex; Incidental encoding; Intentional encoding; Medial temporal lobe; Recognition

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; AMNESIA; AMNESIC MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDER; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MALE; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NEUROIMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; TEMPORAL LOBE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; AMNESIA; BRAIN; COGNITION DISORDERS; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 79955545692     PISSN: 19317557     EISSN: 19317565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11682-011-9117-4     Document Type: Article

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