Ageing and brain white matter structure in 3,513 UK Biobank participants

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Cox, Simon R ^a,b   Ritchie, Stuart J ^a   Tucker Drob, Elliot M ^c   Liewald, David C ^a   Hagenaars, Saskia P ^a   Davies, Gail ^a   Wardlaw, Joanna M ^a,b,d   Gale, Catharine R ^a,e   Bastin, Mark E ^a,b,d   Deary, Ian J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b Scottish Imaging Network   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; AGING POPULATION; BRAIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE INCIDENCE; DISPERSION; MICROSTRUCTURE; PROTEIN; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN SIZE; CINGULUM (BRAIN); DIFFUSION; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; INFERIOR LONGITUDINAL FASCICULUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIAL LEMNISCUS; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE CEREBELLAR PEDUNCLE; NEURITE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITOFRONTAL FASCICULUS; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SUPERIOR LONGITUDINAL FASCICULUS; THALAMUS; THALAMUS ANTERIOR NUCLEUS; UNCINATE FASCICULUS; UNITED KINGDOM; WHITE MATTER; BIOBANK; BRAIN; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; SEX FACTOR;

UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; BIOLOGICAL SPECIMEN BANKS; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEX FACTORS; UNITED KINGDOM; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 85006282676     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms13629     Document Type: Article

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