White matter microstructural organization and gait stability in older adults

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience

Volumn 6, Issue JUN, 2014, Pages

  Bruijn, Sjoerd M ^a,b,c   Van Impe, Annouchka ^a   Duysens, Jacques ^a,d   Swinnen, Stephan P ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c FUJIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Department of Research Development and Education Sint Maartenskliniek ^*  (Netherlands)

^e Leuven Research Institute for Neuroscience and Disease O and N4   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Ageing; Dti; Extrapolated center of mass; Gait stability; Maximum Lyapunov exponent; Step width; White matter integrity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FALLING; FEMALE; GAIT; GAIT STABILITY; HUMAN; LYAPUNOV EXPONENT; MALE; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; MIDDLE AGED; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; RANGE OF MOTION; SAFETY; SAFETY MARGIN; SUBCORTEX; THALAMUS; WHITE MATTER; WHITE MATTER MICROSTRUCTURAL ORGANIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84904548985     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16634365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2014.00104     Document Type: Article

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