Failure to modulate attentional control in advanced aging linked to white matter pathology

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1038-1051

  Hedden, Trey ^a   Van Dijk, Koene R A ^a,b   Shire, Emily H ^a   Sperling, Reisa A ^a   Johnson, Keith A ^a   Buckner, Randy L ^a,b,c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

aging; amyloid beta; executive function; fMRI; individual differences; PET

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PARIETAL CORTEX; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WHITE MATTER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857141328     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhr172     Document Type: Article

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