Age-associated differences on structural brain MRI in nondemented individuals from 71 to 103 years

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 40, Issue , 2016, Pages 86-97

  Yang, Zixuan ^a   Wen, Wei ^a,b   Jiang, Jiyang ^a   Crawford, John D ^a   Reppermund, Simone ^a,c   Levitan, Charlene ^a   Slavin, Melissa J ^a   Kochan, Nicole A ^a,b   Richmond, Robyn L ^a   Brodaty, Henry ^a,b   Trollor, Julian N ^a,c   Sachdev, Perminder S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b PRINCE OF WALES HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Brain aging; Gray matter; Hippocampus; Oldest old; Structural MRI; White matter hyperintensities

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL THICKNESS (BRAIN); FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIAL TEMPORAL LOBE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WHITE MATTER; BRAIN; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PATHOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TEMPORAL LOBE; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BRAIN; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; TEMPORAL LOBE; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84960336610     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: 15581497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2016.01.006     Document Type: Article

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