Brain structure and cognitive correlates of body mass index in healthy older adults

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 278, Issue , 2015, Pages 342-347

  Bolzenius, Jacob D ^a   Laidlaw, David H ^b   Cabeen, Ryan P ^b   Conturo, Thomas E ^c   McMichael, Amanda R ^c   Lane, Elizabeth M ^d   Heaps, Jodi M ^a   Salminen, Lauren E ^a   Baker, Laurie M ^a   Scott, Staci E ^a   Cooley, Sarah A ^a   Gunstad, John ^e   Paul, Robert H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b Brown Univerity   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; BMI; Cognition; DTI; Tractography; White matter

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BRAIN; BRAIN REGION; CINGULATE GYRUS; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NEUROANATOMY; NORMAL HUMAN; UNCINATE FASCICULUS; WHITE MATTER; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICS; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY MASS INDEX; BRAIN; COGNITION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL STATUS SCHEDULE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84908636943     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2014.10.010     Document Type: Article

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