Late life cognitive control deficits are accentuated by white matter disease burden

Brain

Volumn 134, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1673-1683

  Mayda, Adriane B V ^a   Westphal, Andrew ^a   Carter, Cameron S ^a   Decarli, Charles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

ageing; functional connectivity; functional MRI; white matter hyperintensities

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL TASK; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; NEUROBIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; ROSTRAL ANTERIOR CINGULATE CORTEX; SUPRAMARGINAL GYRUS; WHITE MATTER; WHITE MATTER DISEASE;

EID: 79957847654     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awr065     Document Type: Article

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