Studying variability in human brain aging in a population-based German cohort-rationale and design of 1000BRAINS

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience

Volumn 6, Issue JUL, 2014, Pages

  Caspers, Svenja ^a   Moebus, Susanne ^b   Lux, Silke ^a   Pundt, Noreen ^b   Schütz, Holger ^a   Mühleisen, Thomas W ^a,c   Gras, Vincent ^a   Eickhoff, Simon B ^a,d   Romanzetti, Sandro ^a   Stöcker, Tony ^a   Stirnberg, Rüdiger ^a   Kirlangic, Mehmet E ^a   Minnerop, Martina ^a   Pieperhoff, Peter ^a   Mödder, Ulrich ^a   Das, Samir ^e   Evans, Alan C ^e   Jöckel, Karl Heinz ^b   Erbel, Raimund ^b   Cichon, Sven ^a,c,f   Nöthen, Markus M ^c   Sturma, Dieter ^a,c   Bauer, Andreas ^a,d   Jon Shah, N ^a,g,h   Zilles, Karl ^a,g,i   Amunts, Katrin ^a,d,g   more..

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^d HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^g JARA BRAIN   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

ⁱ RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aging; Cohort; Connectivity; Elderly; Heinz nixdorf recall study; Imaging genetics; Resting state; Variability

Indexed keywords

MYELIN;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BRAIN MAPPING; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COHORT ANALYSIS; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISEASES; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HANDEDNESS; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INCIDENTAL FINDING; LABORATORY TEST; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LINGUISTICS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MEMORY; MOOD; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERSONALITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROGENY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SELF CONCEPT; SELF ESTEEM; SELF REPORT; SPOUSE; STRESS; VERBAL MEMORY; WHITE MATTER LESION; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 84904680514     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16634365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2014.00149     Document Type: Article

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