Journal article
Brain Aging and Its Modifiers
Abstract
Aging is marked by individual differences and differential vulnerability of cognitive operations and their neural substrates. Cross-sectional studies of brain volume reveal greater age-related shrinkage of the prefrontal cortex (PFC) and the hippocampus than in the entorhinal and primary visual cortex. Longitudinal studies of regional brain shrinkage indicate that when individual differences are controlled, larger and broader shrinkage …
Authors
RAZ N; RODRIGUE KM; HAACKE EM
Journal
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Vol. 1097, No. 1, pp. 84–93
Publisher
Wiley
Publication Date
February 2007
DOI
10.1196/annals.1379.018
ISSN
0077-8923