Neuroanatomical substrates of executive functions: Beyond prefrontal structures

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 85, Issue , 2016, Pages 100-109

  Bettcher, Brianne M ^a,b   Mungas, Dan ^c   Patel, Nihar ^a   Elofson, Jonathan ^a   Dutt, Shubir ^a   Wynn, Matthew ^a   Watson, Christa L ^a   Stephens, Melanie ^a   Walsh, Christine M ^a   Kramer, Joel H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Cognitive; Diffusion tensor imaging; Executive control; Neuroimaging; Neuropsychology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN SIZE; CINGULUM (BRAIN); CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; FRONTAL LOBE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING SPEED; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SET SHIFTING; SUPERIOR LONGITUDINAL FASCICULUS; TEMPORAL LOBE; WHITE MATTER; WORKING MEMORY; ANATOMIC MODEL; ANISOTROPY; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FACTOR ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANISOTROPY; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, ANATOMIC; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84961116690     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2016.03.001     Document Type: Article

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