Hippocampal volume varies with educational attainment across the life-span

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue OCTOBER 2012, 2012, Pages 1-26

  Noble, Kimberly G ^a,b   Grieve, Stuart M ^c   Korgaonkar, Mayuresh S ^c   Engelhardt, Laura E ^b   Griffith, Erica Y ^a   Williams, Leanne M ^c   Brickman, Adam M ^a,b  

^a Department of Pediatrics College of Physicians and Surgeons Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Brain; Brain reserve; Education; Hippocampus; Neuroanatomy; Ses; Socioeconomic status

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868120906     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2012.00307     Document Type: Article

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