Age shall not weary us: Deleterious effects of self-regulation depletion are specific to younger adults

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Dahm, Theresa ^a   Neshat Doost, Hamid Taher ^b   Golden, Ann Marie ^a   Horn, Elizabeth ^a   Hagger, Martin ^c   Dalgleish, Tim ^a  

^a MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ISFAHAN   (Iran)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY; BRAIN MATURATION; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGO; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SELF CONTROL; STROOP TEST; TASK PERFORMANCE; AGING; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; AGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 80055064194     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0026351     Document Type: Article

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