Striatal iron content predicts its shrinkage and changes in verbal working memory after two years in healthy adults

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 35, Issue 17, 2015, Pages 6731-6743

  Daugherty, Ana M ^a   Haacke, E Mark ^b   Raz, Naftali ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Brain; Longitudinal; Metabolic syndrome; MRI; R2

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CORPUS STRIATUM; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ION CURRENT; LEISURE; LIPID ANALYSIS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; RISK FACTOR; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL MEMORY; VOLUMETRY; WORKING MEMORY; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; LEARNING; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; SHORT TERM MEMORY; YOUNG ADULT;

IRON;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN; CORPUS STRIATUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRON; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; VERBAL LEARNING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84929347133     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4717-14.2015     Document Type: Article

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