Associations between education and brain structure at age 73 years, adjusted for age 11 IQ

Neurology

Volumn 87, Issue 17, 2016, Pages 1820-1826

  Cox, Simon R ^a,c   Dickie, David Alexander ^a,c   Ritchie, Stuart J ^a   Karama, Sherif ^d,e   Pattie, Alison ^a   Royle, Natalie A ^a,c   Corley, Janie ^a   Aribisala, Benjamin S ^a,c,f   Valdés Hernández, Maria ^a,c   Muñoz Maniega, Susana ^a,c   Starr, John M ^a,b   Bastin, Mark E ^a,c   Evans, Alan C ^d   Wardlaw, Joanna M ^a,c   Deary, Ian J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c Scottish Imaging Network   (United Kingdom)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e DOUGLAS MENTAL HEALTH UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^f LAGOS STATE UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; BRAIN SIZE; COMMUNITY CARE; CORTICAL THICKNESS (BRAIN); EDUCATION; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; INTELLIGENCE TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WHITE MATTER; ANISOTROPY; ASSOCIATION; ATROPHY; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; INDEPENDENT LIVING; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; INTELLIGENCE; PATHOLOGY;

AGED; ANISOTROPY; ASSOCIATION; ATROPHY; BRAIN; COHORT STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDEPENDENT LIVING; INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE;

EID: 84992436144     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000003247     Document Type: Article

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