Life-span plasticity of the brain and cognition: From questions to evidence and back

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 2195-2200

  Raz, Naftali ^a   Lindenberger, Ulman ^b  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aging; Brain; Cognition; Cognitive training; Life span; Longitudinal analysis; Plasticity

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR;

ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN SIZE; COGNITION; CORTICAL THICKNESS (BRAIN); DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; EDITORIAL; EPISODIC MEMORY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; EXERCISE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; LEARNING; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REWARD; SEMANTIC MEMORY; TRAINING; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WORKING MEMORY;

AGING; BRAIN; COGNITION; COGNITIVE TRAINING; LIFE-SPAN; LONGITUDINAL ANALYSIS; PLASTICITY;

AGING; ANIMALS; BRAIN; COGNITION; HUMANS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY;

EID: 84888827081     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: 18737528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2013.10.003     Document Type: Editorial

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