White matter integrity as a mediator in the relationship between dietary nutrients and cognition in the elderly

Annals of Neurology

Volumn 79, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1014-1025

  Gu, Yian ^a   Vorburger, Robert S ^a   Gazes, Yunglin ^a   Habeck, Christian G ^a,b   Stern, Yaakov ^a,b   Luchsinger, José A ^a,b,c   Manly, Jennifer J ^a,b   Schupf, Nicole ^a,b,c   Mayeux, Richard ^a,b   Brickman, Adam M ^a,b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; APOLIPOPROTEIN E; OMEGA 3 FATTY ACID; OMEGA 6 FATTY ACID;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BRAIN SIZE; CALORIC INTAKE; CAUCASIAN; COGNITION; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EDUCATION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; GENDER; GENOTYPE; GRAY MATTER; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY; NUTRIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WHITE MATTER; WHITE MATTER INTEGRITY; ANISOTROPY; FOOD; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANISOTROPY; COGNITION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FOOD; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84971254730     PISSN: 03645134     EISSN: 15318249     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ana.24674     Document Type: Article

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