Age-related changes in the topological organization of the white matter structural connectome across the human lifespan

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 3777-3792

  Zhao, Tengda ^a   Cao, Miao ^a   Niu, Haijing ^a   Zuo, Xi Nian ^a,b   Evans, Alan ^c   He, Yong ^a   Dong, Qi ^a   Shu, Ni ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Brain network; Diffusion MRI; Fiber tractography; Graph theory; Lifespan; White matter

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEGENERATION; BRAIN MATURATION; BRAIN REGION; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONNECTOME; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIFESPAN; MALE; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PREDICTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; THEORETICAL STUDY; TRACTOGRAPHY; WHITE MATTER; AGING; ALGORITHM; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BRAIN; CINGULATE GYRUS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBER; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; TEMPORAL LOBE; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; CHILD; CONNECTOME; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE; WHITE MATTER; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84942279204     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.22877     Document Type: Article

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