Models of the aging brain structure and individual decline

Frontiers in Neuroinformatics

Volumn 6, Issue MARCH, 2012, Pages

  Ziegler, Gabriel ^a   Dahnke, Robert ^a   Gaser, Christian ^a  

^a JENA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aging; Brain morphometry; Inter individual differences; Longitudinal analysis; Modeling; Multivariate analysis

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANATOMIC MODEL; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; CORTICAL THICKNESS (BRAIN); FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEUROANATOMY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

EID: 84857562176     PISSN: 16625196     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fninf.2012.00003     Document Type: Article

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