Structural brain correlates of delay of gratification in the elderly

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 128, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 134-145

  Drobetz, Reinhard ^a   Hänggi, Jürgen ^a   Maercker, Andreas ^a   Kaufmann, Karin ^a   Jäncke, Lutz ^a,b   Forstmeier, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Institute of Psychology Division of Neuropsychology International Normal Aging and Plasticity Imaging Center (INAPIC) University Research Priority Program (URPP) Dynamic of Healthy Aging   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Caudate nucleus; Delay of gratification; Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex; Surface based morphometry; Ventrolateral prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; BRAIN; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN SIZE; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CORTICAL THICKNESS (BRAIN); DELAY DISCOUNTING; DELAY OF GRATIFICATION; DORSOLATERAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMPULSIVENESS; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MORPHOMETRICS; NEUROANATOMY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PUTAMEN; SURFACE AREA; VENTROLATERAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN MAPPING; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DELAY DISCOUNTING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

EID: 84916593760     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: 19390084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0036208     Document Type: Article

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