A new perspective on behavioral inconsistency and neural noise in aging: Compensatory speeding of neural communication

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue SEP, 2012, Pages

  Hong, S Lee ^a   Rebec, George V ^b  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Compensation; Energetics; Neural oscillations; Noise

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; AGE; AGING; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN AGING; BRAIN FUNCTION; CELL COMMUNICATION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ENERGY; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; LOCOMOTION; MITOCHONDRION; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE CELL; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NEURAL NOISE; OSCILLATION; VELOCITY;

EID: 84870512077     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16634365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2012.00027     Document Type: Article

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