Differential longitudinal changes in cortical thickness, surface area and volume across the adult life span: Regions of accelerating and decelerating change

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 25, 2014, Pages 8488-8498

  Storsve, Andreas Berg ^a   Fjell, Anders M ^a,b   Tamnes, Christian K ^a   Westlye, Lars T ^a   Overbye, Knut ^a   Aasland, Hilde W ^a   Walhovd, Kristine B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Aging; Area; Cortex; Thickness; Trajectory; Volume

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; BRAIN SURFACE AREA; CORTICAL THICKNESS (BRAIN); FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIFESPAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VERY ELDERLY;

AGING; AREA; CORTEX; THICKNESS; TRAJECTORY; VOLUME;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ATROPHY; BODY SURFACE AREA; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGEVITY; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84902449005     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0391-14.2014     Document Type: Article

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