Multimodal intervention in older adults improves resting-state functional connectivity between the medial prefrontal cortex and medial temporal lobe

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience

Volumn 6, Issue MAR, 2014, Pages

  Li, Rui ^a   Zhu, Xinyi ^a   Yin, Shufei ^a   Niu, Yanan ^a   Zheng, Zhiwei ^a   Huang, Xin ^a   Wang, Baoxi ^a   Li, Juan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Aging; fMRI; Functional connectivity; Intervention; Plasticity

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUNSELING; EDUCATION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEAD MOVEMENT; HEALTH STATUS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; RESTING STATE NETWORK; SENESCENCE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TAI CHI; TEMPORAL LOBE; WELLBEING;

EID: 84898048633     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16634365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2014.00039     Document Type: Article

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