Multi-decade hippocampal and amygdala volume analysis: Equal variability and limited age effect

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 499, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 93-98

  Mouiha, Abderazzak ^a   Duchesne, Simon ^a,b  

^a CENTRE DE RECHERCHE DE L INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE EN SANTÉ MENTALE DE QUÉBEC   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aging; Amygdala volume; Hippocampal volume; Human brain; Trajectory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEMISPHERE; HIPPOCAMPAL FIMBRIA; HUMAN; INFORMATION CENTER; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; AMYGDALA; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79959379507     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2011.05.041     Document Type: Article

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