Age-related changes in topological organization of structural brain networks in healthy individuals

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 552-568

  Wu, Kai ^a   Taki, Yasuyuki ^a   Sato, Kazunori ^a   Kinomura, Shigeo ^a   Goto, Ryoi ^a   Okada, Ken ^a   Kawashima, Ryuta ^a   He, Yong ^b,c   Evans, Alan C ^c   Fukuda, Hiroshi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Economical small world; Magnetic resonance imaging; Modular organization; Normal aging; Regional gray matter volume; Structural brain network

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; JAPANESE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURAL BRAIN NETWORK;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BRAIN; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL PATHWAYS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84863012575     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.21232     Document Type: Article

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