Age-dependent differences in brain tissue microstructure assessed with neurite orientation dispersion and density imaging

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 43, Issue , 2016, Pages 79-88

  Merluzzi, Andrew P ^a,b   Dean, Douglas C ^c   Adluru, Nagesh ^c   Suryawanshi, Gaurav S ^c   Okonkwo, Ozioma C ^a   Oh, Jennifer M ^a   Hermann, Bruce P ^a   Sager, Mark A ^a   Asthana, Sanjay ^a,d   Zhang, Hui ^e   Johnson, Sterling C ^a,d   Alexander, Andrew L ^a,c   Bendlin, Barbara B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d WILLIAM S MIDDLETON MEMORIAL VETERANS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aging; Cognition; Diffusion weighted imaging; Microstructure; MRI; Neurites

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGING; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN TISSUE; DORSOMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GENOTYPE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY TEST; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; NEURITE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; TISSUE STRUCTURE; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; WHITE MATTER; AGED; BRAIN; COGNITION; DEMENTIA; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY;

AGED; AGING; BRAIN; COGNITION; DEMENTIA; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURITES; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS;

EID: 84966283966     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: 15581497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2016.03.026     Document Type: Article

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