Decreased segregation of brain systems across the healthy adult lifespan

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 46, 2014, Pages E4997-E5006

  Chan, Micaela Y ^a   Park, Denise C ^a,b   Savalia, Neil K ^a   Petersen, Steven E ^c   Wig, Gagan S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Brain networks; Connectome; Memory; Resting state correlations

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; LIFESPAN; LONG TERM MEMORY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTIVE VALUE; SENSORY STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT; AGED; AGING; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONNECTOME; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; REST; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CONNECTOME; FEMALE; HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, LONG-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; REST; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84911873040     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1415122111     Document Type: Article

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