Accelerated longitudinal gray/white matter contrast decline in aging in lightly myelinated cortical regions

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 3669-3684

  Vidal Piñeiro, Didac ^a   Walhovd, Kristine B ^a   Storsve, Andreas B ^a   Grydeland, Håkon ^a   Rohani, Darius A ^a   Fjell, Anders M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

aging; gray white matter contrast; lifespan; myelin; T1w T2w

Indexed keywords

MYELIN;

ACCELERATION; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; CALIFORNIA VERBAL LEARNING TEST II; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTELLIGENCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; MYELINATION; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; VERY ELDERLY; WECHSLER ABBREVIATED SCALE OF INTELLIGENCE; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84985995111     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.23267     Document Type: Article

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