Multiple Brain Markers are Linked to Age-Related Variation in Cognition

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1388-1400

  Hedden, Trey ^a   Schultz, Aaron P ^a   Rieckmann, Anna ^a,c   Mormino, Elizabeth C ^a   Johnson, Keith A ^a   Sperling, Reisa A ^a   Buckner, Randy L ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

aging; amyloid; executive function; memory; white matter

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE; PITTSBURGH COMPOUND B; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; COGNITION; CORPUS STRIATUM; CORTICAL THICKNESS (BONE); DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EPISODIC MEMORY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; GRAY MATTER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; VELOCITY; VERY ELDERLY; WHITE MATTER LESION; AGING; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; METABOLISM; NERVE TRACT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; WHITE MATTER;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; AMYLOID; ANISOTROPY; BIOMARKERS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, EPISODIC; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84962827544     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhu238     Document Type: Article

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