Association between prefrontal activity and volume change in prefrontal and medial temporal lobes in aging and dementia: A review

Ageing Research Reviews

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 479-489

  Maillet, David ^a   Rajah, M Natasha ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b DOUGLAS MENTAL HEALTH UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aging; Dementia; Medial temporal lobe; Prefrontal cortex; Structure function

Indexed keywords

AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN SIZE; CELL DEDIFFERENTIATION; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; DEMENTIA; EPISODIC MEMORY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROCHEMISTRY; PREDICTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REVIEW; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; BRAIN MAPPING; DEMENTIA; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEMORY, EPISODIC; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ORGAN SIZE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 84873271465     PISSN: 15681637     EISSN: 18729649     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.arr.2012.11.001     Document Type: Review

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