Age differences in the intrinsic functional connectivity of default network subsystems

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience

Volumn 5, Issue NOV, 2013, Pages

  Campbell, Karen L ^a,b,d   Grigg, Omer ^a   Saverino, Cristina ^a,b   Churchill, Nathan ^a,c   Grady, Cheryl L ^a,b  

^a ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aging; Default network; FMRI; Functional connectivity; Resting state; Subsystems

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGE DIFFERENCE; AGED; ANGULAR GYRUS; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ANTERIOR INSULA; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFAULT MODE NETWORK; DORSOMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FRONTAL OPERCULUM; FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INTRAPARIETAL SULCUS; MALE; MEDIAL TEMPORAL LOBE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; NEUROANATOMY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; OCCIPITAL GYRUS; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SUPERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; SUPRAMARGINAL GYRUS; TASK POSITIVE NETWORK; TEMPORAL LOBE; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84895809958     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16634365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2013.00073     Document Type: Article

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