Structural and functional imaging correlates of cognitive and brain reserve hypotheses in healthy and pathological aging

Brain Topography

Volumn 24, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 340-357

  Bartrés Faz, David ^a,b   Arenaza Urquijo, Eider M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUT D INVESTIGACIONS BIOMÈDIQUES AUGUST PI I SUNYER IDIBAPS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Aging; Brain networks; Brain reserve; Cognition; Cognitive reserve; Compensation; Dementia; Functional MRI; MRI; Neuroplasticity

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; XENON 133;

AGING; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN ATROPHY; COGNITIVE RESERVE; DEMENTIA; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NUTRITIONAL PARAMETERS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SMOKING; VASCULAR DISEASE;

AGING; COGNITION; COGNITIVE RESERVE; DEMENTIA; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEUROIMAGING; NEURONAL PLASTICITY;

EID: 80755172229     PISSN: 08960267     EISSN: 15736792     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10548-011-0195-9     Document Type: Article

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