Associations between white matter microstructure and cognitive performance in old and very old age

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Laukka, Erika J ^a   Lövdén, Martin ^a   Kalpouzos, Grégoria ^a   Li, Tie Qiang ^b   Jonsson, Tomas ^b   Wahlund, Lars Olof ^b   Fratiglioni, Laura ^a,c   Bäckman, Lars ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c STOCKHOLM GERONTOLOGY RESEARCH CENTER   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COGNITION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; MALE; MEAN DIFFUSIVITY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PERCEPTUAL SPEED; POPULATION RESEARCH; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RESPONSE TIME; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; VERY ELDERLY; WHITE MATTER;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 84896727414     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0081419     Document Type: Article

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