Childhood intelligence and brain white matter hyperintensities predict fluid intelligence age 78-81 years: A 1921 Aberdeen birth cohort study

Age and Ageing

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 562-567

  Salarirad, Sima ^a   Staff, Roger T ^a   Fox, Helen C ^a   Deary, Ian J ^b   Whalley, Lawrence ^a   Murray, Alison D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brain MRI; Childhood intelligence; Elderly; FLuid intelligence; Healthy old people; White matter hyperintensities

Indexed keywords

AGED; CHILDHOOD INTELLIGENCE; COGNITION; COHORT ANALYSIS; FLUID INTELLIGENCE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTELLIGENCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCORING SYSTEM; VOLUNTEER; WHITE MATTER;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BRAIN; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; COGNITION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SCOTLAND;

EID: 80051724268     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: 14682834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afr065     Document Type: Review

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