Brain structural trajectories over the adult lifespan

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2377-2389

  Ziegler, Gabriel ^a   Dahnke, Robert ^a   Jäncke, Lutz ^b   Yotter, Rachel Aine ^a   May, Arne ^c   Gaser, Christian ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aging; Brain development; Hippocampus; Plasticity; Voxel based morphometry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANATOMICAL CONCEPTS; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN SIZE; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; LIFESPAN; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL LOBE; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84866184062     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.21374     Document Type: Article

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