Structural and functional differences in medial prefrontal cortex underlie distractibility and suppression deficits in ageing

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Chadick, James Z ^a   Zanto, Theodore P ^a   Gazzaley, Adam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGING; BRAIN; MEMORY; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISORDER; NEUROLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONNECTOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISTRACTIBILITY; EPISODIC MEMORY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTROSPECTION; LEARNING; MALE; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; MENTAL ARITHMETIC; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RESPONSE TIME; RETROSPLENIAL CORTEX; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SUPERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; SUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA; SUPPRESSION DEFICIT; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WANDERING BEHAVIOR; WHITE MATTER; WORKING MEMORY; ADOLESCENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; REACTION TIME; SHORT TERM MEMORY; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REACTION TIME; VISUAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84903711011     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5223     Document Type: Article

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