White matter integrity declined over 6-months, but dance intervention improved integrity of the Fornix of older adults

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue MAR, 2017, Pages

  Burzynska, Agnieszka Z ^a,b   Jiao, Yuqin ^a   Knecht, Anya M ^b   Fanning, Jason ^b   Awick, Elizabeth A ^b   Chen, Tammy ^b   Gothe, Neha ^c   Voss, Michelle W ^d   McAuley, Edward ^b   Kramer, Arthur F ^b,e  

^a Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^e NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain; Diffusion; DTI; Fitness; Fractional anisotropy; Physical activity; Processing speed; Randomized clinical trial

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGING; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DANCING; DIFFUSION; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; GROUP DYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIFESTYLE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUTRITION; PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; VELOCITY; WALKING; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 85017255605     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16634365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2017.00059     Document Type: Article

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