Youthful brains in older adults: Preserved neuroanatomy in the default mode and salience networks contributes to youthful memory in superaging

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 36, Issue 37, 2016, Pages 9659-9668

  Sun, Felicia W ^a   Stepanovic, Michael R ^a   Andreano, Joseph ^a,b   Barrett, Lisa Feldman ^a,b   Touroutoglou, Alexandra ^a   Dickerson, Bradford C ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Cerebral cortex; Default mode network; Memory; Salience network

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANGULAR GYRUS; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CALIFORNIA VERBAL LEARNING TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL THICKNESS (BRAIN); DEFAULT MODE NETWORK; DORSOLATERAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; DORSOMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; MALE; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; MEMORY; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; MORPHOMETRICS; MOTIVATION; NEUROANATOMY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIMARY SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALIENCE NETWORK; SUPERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; IMAGE PROCESSING; LEARNING; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE TRACT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; VERBAL LEARNING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84987818035     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1492-16.2016     Document Type: Article

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