The Structural and Functional Connectome and Prediction of Risk for Cognitive Impairment in Older Adults

Current Behavioral Neuroscience Reports

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 234-245

  Contreras, Joey A ^a,b   Goñi, Joaquín ^a,b   Risacher, Shannon L ^a,b   Sporns, Olaf ^a,b   Saykin, Andrew J ^a,b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain connectomics; Cognitive impairment; Network science; Neurodegenerative disease

Indexed keywords

EID: 85010353247     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21962979     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40473-015-0056-z     Document Type: Review

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