Brain volumetric and microstructural correlates of executive and motor performance in aged rhesus monkeys

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue OCT, 2012, Pages

  Sridharan, Aadhavi ^a   Willette, Auriel A ^b,c,g   Bendlin, Barbara B ^b,c   Alexander, Andrew L ^d   Coe, Christopher L ^a   Voytko, Mary L ^e   Colman, Ricki J ^f   Kemnitz, Joseph W ^a,c   Weindruch, Richard H ^b,c   Johnson, Sterling C ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b WILLIAM S MIDDLETON MEMORIAL VETERANS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^e WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^g NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Cognition; Macaque; Magnetic resonance imaging; Motor

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CALORIC RESTRICTION; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; FRONTAL CORTEX; GRAY MATTER; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL CORTEX; PREMOTOR CORTEX; RESPONSE TIME; RHESUS MONKEY; SUBCORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VOLUMETRY;

EID: 84870571061     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16634365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2012.00031     Document Type: Article

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