Neuroanatomical correlates of cognitive performance in late life

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 216-226

  Zhang, Haobo ^a   Sachdev, Perminder S ^a,c   Wen, Wei ^a,c   Kochan, Nicole A ^a,c   Zhu, Wanlin ^a   Crawford, John D ^a   Brodaty, Henry ^b,c   Slavin, Melissa J ^b   Reppermund, Simone ^a   Kang, Kristan ^a   Trollor, Julian N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c PRINCE OF WALES HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ageing; Cognitive assessment; Grey matter; Magnetic resonance imaging; The Sydney Memory and Ageing Study; Voxel based morphometry

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; COGNITION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HEMISPHERE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL LOBE; VERBAL MEMORY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUSTRALIA; BRAIN; COGNITION; COGNITION DISORDERS; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; LANGUAGE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; NEW SOUTH WALES; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 81355122833     PISSN: 14208008     EISSN: 14219824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000333372     Document Type: Article

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