Cross-sectional versus longitudinal estimates of age-related changes in the adult brain: Overlaps and discrepancies

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 2563-2567

  Pfefferbaum, Adolf ^a,b   Sullivan, Edith V ^b  

^a SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging MRI; Atlas based parcellation; Brain; Cross sectional; Hippocampus; Linear mixed effects model; Longitudinal

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; AGE; BRAIN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; IMAGE PROCESSING; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; BRAIN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LINEAR MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84940467215     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: 15581497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2015.05.005     Document Type: Article

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