Cognitive Processing Speed in Older Adults: Relationship with White Matter Integrity

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Kerchner, Geoffrey A ^a   Racine, Caroline A ^b   Hale, Sandra ^c   Wilheim, Reva ^b   Laluz, Victor ^b   Miller, Bruce L ^b   Kramer, Joel H ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARCUATE FASCICULUS; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; GRAY MATTER; HANDEDNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VISION; WHITE MATTER;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN MAPPING; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARIETAL LOBE; PERFORANT PATHWAY; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 84869858812     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0050425     Document Type: Article

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