Impact of body mass index on neuronal fiber bundle lengths among healthy older adults

Brain Imaging and Behavior

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 300-306

  Bolzenius, Jacob D ^a   Laidlaw, David H ^b   Cabeen, Ryan P ^b   Conturo, Thomas E ^c   McMichael, Amanda R ^c   Lane, Elizabeth M ^d   Heaps, Jodi M ^a   Salminen, Lauren E ^a   Baker, Laurie M ^a   Gunstad, John ^e   Paul, Robert H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b Brown Univerity   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; BMI; DTI; Fiber bundle length; Tractography; White matter

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL LOBE; TRACTOGRAPHY; WHITE MATTER; WHITE MATTER FIBER BUNDLE LENGTH;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BODY MASS INDEX; BRAIN; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; REFERENCE VALUES; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 84887627283     PISSN: 19317557     EISSN: 19317565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11682-013-9230-7     Document Type: Article

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