Regional Frontal Gray Matter Volume Associated with Executive Function Capacity as a Risk Factor for Vehicle Crashes in Normal Aging Adults

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Sakai, Hiroyuki ^a   Takahara, Miwa ^b   Honjo, Naomi F ^c   Doi, Shun'ichi ^d   Sadato, Norihiro ^e   Uchiyama, Yuji ^a  

^a Rd Management Section   (Japan)

^b AICHI SHUKUTOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Osaka Neurosurgical Hospital   (Japan)

^d KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; DRIVING ABILITY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL CAPACITY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; AGED; AGING; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84866556405     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0045920     Document Type: Article

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