Longitudinal brain structure and cognitive changes over 8 years in an East Asian cohort

NeuroImage

Volumn 147, Issue , 2017, Pages 852-860

  Leong, Ruth L F ^a   Lo, June C ^a   Sim, Sam K Y ^a   Zheng, Hui ^a   Tandi, Jesisca ^a   Zhou, Juan ^a   Chee, Michael W L ^a  

^a DUKE NUS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Brain aging; Cognitive decline; Cognitive function; Structural MRI

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN SIZE; CHINESE; COGNITION; COHORT ANALYSIS; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; GRAY MATTER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL CORTEX; VENTRICULAR EXPANSION; VERBAL MEMORY; VISUOSPATIAL MEMORY; WHITE MATTER; ATROPHY; COGNITIVE AGING; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; MEMORY DISORDER; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SINGAPORE; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATROPHY; CEREBRUM; COGNITIVE AGING; COGNITIVE DYSFUNCTION; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; SINGAPORE; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 85005949252     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.10.016     Document Type: Article

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