Brain characteristics of individuals resisting age-related cognitive decline over two decades

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 20, 2013, Pages 8668-8677

  Pudas, Sara ^a,e   Persson, Jonas ^a,b,e   Josefsson, Maria ^c,e   de Luna, Xavier ^c   Nilsson, Lars Göran ^a   Nyberg, Lars ^d,e  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BOLD SIGNAL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGING; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COGNITION DISORDERS; COMMUNITY HEALTH PLANNING; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; REACTION TIME;

EID: 84877730159     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2900-12.2013     Document Type: Article

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