Brain aging: A critical reappraisal

Brain Aging and Therapeutic Interventions

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1-18

  Thakur, Mahendra K ^a   Konar, Arpita ^a   Gautam, Akash ^a  

^a BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Aging; Cognition; Diet; Environment; Epigenetics; Genes; Hormones; Neurodegeneration; Neuroimaging; Therapeutics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904329921     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-5237-5_1     Document Type: Chapter

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