Verbal working and long-term episodic memory associations with white matter microstructure in normal aging investigated using tract-based spatial statistics

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 768-777

  Charlton, Rebecca A ^a,c   Barrick, Thomas R ^a   Markus, Hugh S ^a   Morris, Robin G ^b  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor imaging; Episodic memory; Normal aging; White matter; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NORMAL HUMAN; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TISSUE STRUCTURE; VERBAL MEMORY; WHITE MATTER; WORKING MEMORY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BIOSTATISTICS; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, EPISODIC; MEMORY, LONG-TERM; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 84884327418     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: 19391498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0032668     Document Type: Article

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