Spatial navigation training protects the hippocampus against age-related changes during early and late adulthood

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 620.e9-620.e22

  Lövdén, Martin ^a,b,c   Schaefer, Sabine ^a   Noack, Hannes ^a   Bodammer, Nils Christian ^a   Kühn, Simone ^d,e   Heinze, Hans Jochen ^f,g   Düzel, Emrah ^f,g,h   Bäckman, Lars ^a,c   Lindenberger, Ulman ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^e GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^f OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^g GERMAN CENTER FOR NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES DZNE   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cognitive aging; Cognitive training; Hippocampus; Plasticity; Spatial navigation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EPISODIC MEMORY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MALE; NEURONAVIGATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 84855760423     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: 15581497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2011.02.013     Document Type: Article

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