Less wiring, more firing: Low-performing older adults compensate for impaired white matter with greater neural activity

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 983-990

  Daselaar, Sander M ^a,b   Iyengar, Vijeth ^a   Davis, Simon W ^c   Eklund, Karl ^a   Hayes, Scott M ^d,e   Cabeza, Roberto E ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e VA BOSTON HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

DTI; elderly; fMRI; frontal; MTL; PFC

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; NERVE CELL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PERFORMANCE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; WHITE MATTER; AGING; BRAIN MAPPING; NERVE TRACT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

AGED; AGING; BRAIN MAPPING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; TEMPORAL LOBE; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84926682435     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bht289     Document Type: Article

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