White matter integrity of motor connections related to training gains in healthy aging

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1404-1411

  Schulz, Robert ^a   Zimerman, Máximo ^a   Timmermann, Jan E ^a   Wessel, Maximilian J ^a   Gerloff, Christian ^a   Hummel, Friedhelm C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aging; Connectivity; Diffusion; Healthy; Learning; Matter; Motor; Premotor; White

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HANDEDNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA; VERY ELDERLY; WEIGHT GAIN; WHITE MATTER; YOUNG ADULT; ANIMAL; LEARNING; MOTOR CORTEX; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANIMALS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR SKILLS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84903372098     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: 15581497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2013.11.024     Document Type: Article

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