Processing speed in normal aging: Effects of white matter hyperintensities and hippocampal volume loss

Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 197-213

  Papp, Kathryn V ^a   Kaplan, Richard F ^a   Springate, Beth ^a   Moscufo, Nicola ^b   Wakefield, Dorothy B ^a   Guttmann, Charles R G ^b   Wolfson, Leslie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive aging; Executive functioning; Hippocampal volume; Processing speed; White matter hyperintensities

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BRAIN; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; STATISTICS; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BRAIN; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84890804696     PISSN: 13825585     EISSN: 17444128     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13825585.2013.795513     Document Type: Article

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