Healthy aging attenuates task-related specialization in the human medial temporal lobe

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1874-1889

  Ramsøy, Thomas Z ^a,b   Liptrot, Matthew G ^a   Skimminge, Arnold ^a,c   Lund, Torben E ^d   Sidaros, Karam ^a,e   Christensen, Mark Schram ^a,f   Baaré, William ^a,e   Paulson, Olaf B ^a,e,f   Jernigan, Terry L ^a,e,g   Siebner, Hartwig R ^a,e,f  

^a Mental Health Services CPH   (Denmark)

^b Department of International Economics and Management   (Denmark)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^d AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^e Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Encoding; Episodic memory; Neural specificity; Recognition; Specialization; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN FUNCTION; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; NORMAL HUMAN; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; PERIRHINAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; RESPONSE TIME; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; COHORT STUDIES; DENMARK; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPECIALIZATION; TEMPORAL LOBE; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84863441784     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: 15581497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2011.09.032     Document Type: Article

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