White matter hyperintensities and cognition: Testing the reserve hypothesis

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1588-1598

  Brickman, Adam M ^a,b   Siedlecki, Karen L ^a   Muraskin, Jordan ^a   Manly, Jennifer J ^a,b   Luchsinger, José A ^a,b,c   Yeung, Lok Kin ^a   Brown, Truman R ^a,d   DeCarli, Charles ^e   Stern, Yaakov ^a,b  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Cognition; Cognitive reserve; MRI; White matter hyperintensities

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE RESERVE; COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOMETRY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; T2 WEIGHTED IMAGING; WHITE MATTER HYPERINTENSITIES; WHITE MATTER HYPERINTENSITIES VOLUME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN; COGNITION DISORDERS; COGNITIVE RESERVE; COHORT STUDIES; DEMENTIA, VASCULAR; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 79960121999     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: 15581497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2009.10.013     Document Type: Article

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