Morphometric and Histologic Substrates of Cingulate Integrity in Elders with Exceptional Memory Capacity

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1781-1791

  Gefen, Tamar ^a,b   Peterson, Melanie ^a   Papastefan, Steven T ^a   Martersteck, Adam ^a   Whitney, Kristen ^a   Rademaker, Alfred ^a,b   Bigio, Eileen H ^a,b   Weintraub, Sandra ^a,b   Rogalski, Emily ^a   Mesulam, M Marsel ^a,c   Geula, Changiz ^a  

^a Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer’s Disease Center ^*  (United States)

^b Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences ^*  (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Alzheimer s pathology; Cingulate cortex; Cistology; Cognition; Structural MRI

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYLOID PLAQUE; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN HISTOLOGY; CELL COUNT; CELL DENSITY; CELL SIZE; CINGULATE GYRUS; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL THICKNESS (BRAIN); EPISODIC MEMORY; EXCEPTIONAL MEMORY CAPACITY; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; MORPHOMETRICS; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; VERY ELDERLY; VON ECONOMO NEURON DENSITY; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE CONTROL STUDY; GENETICS; IMAGE PROCESSING; NERVE CELL; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTMORTEM CHANGE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; APOLIPOPROTEINS E; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CELL SIZE; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLES; NEURONS; POSTMORTEM CHANGES;

EID: 84921915407     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2998-14.2015     Document Type: Article

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