The role of diffusion tensor imaging in the study of cognitive aging

Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages 289-320

  Carmichael, Owen ^a   Lockhart, Samuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain aging; Cognitive aging; Connectivity; Diffusion tensor MRI; White matter injury

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID; APOLIPOPROTEIN E; N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID;

AGING; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONNECTOME; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FLUID ATTENUATION INVERSION RECOVERY; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MEMORY; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSIVE NONFLUENT APHASIA; TRACTOGRAPHY; VASCULAR AMYLOIDOSIS; VISUAL STIMULATION; WHITE MATTER; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; COGNITION DISORDERS; NERVE TRACT; PATHOLOGY;

AGING; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; COGNITION DISORDERS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; HUMANS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84898637707     PISSN: 18663370     EISSN: 18663389     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/7854_2011_176     Document Type: Article

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