The roots of Alzheimer's disease: Are high-expanding cortical areas preferentially targeted?

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 2556-2565

  Fjell, Anders M ^a,b   Amlien, Inge K ^a   Sneve, Markus H ^a   Grydeland, Håkon ^a   Tamnes, Christian K ^a   Chaplin, Tristan A ^c,d   Rosa, Marcello G P ^c,d   Walhovd, Kristine B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Integrative Brain Function   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aging; Alzheimer's disease; Cerebral cortex; Default mode network; Evolution

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN CORTEX; CALCARINE SULCUS; CALLITRICHINAE; CENTRAL SULCUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUNEUS; DEFAULT MODE NETWORK; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; HAPLORHINI; HUMAN; LINGUAL GYRUS; MALE; MEDIAL TEMPORAL LOBE; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; PHYLOGENY; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PRECUNEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPLENIAL CORTEX; SUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA; TEMPORAL CORTEX; AGED; ANIMAL; ATROPHY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN MAPPING; GENETICS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RHESUS MONKEY; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMALS; ATROPHY; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL;

EID: 84973414749     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhu055     Document Type: Article

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