Cortical thickness and its associations with age, total cognition and education across the adult lifespan

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 15; no. 3; p. e0230298
• Main Authors: Habeck, Christian, Gazes, Yunglin, Razlighi, Qolamreza, Stern, Yaakov
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 25.03.2020; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Adult; Adults; Age; Aged; Biology and Life Sciences; Brain; Cerebral cortex; Cerebral Cortex - diagnostic imaging; Cognition; Cognition & reasoning; Cognitive ability; Dementia; Diabetes; Diseases; Education; Educational Status; Event-related potentials; Female; Health aspects; Humans; Hypertension; Intelligence; Life span; Longevity; Male; Medicine and Health Sciences; Memory; Middle Aged; Mortality; Multivariate analysis; Nervous system diseases; Neurodegenerative diseases; Neuroimaging; Neurology; Neurosciences; Physical Sciences; Research and Analysis Methods; Robustness; Social Sciences; Studies; Thickness; New York; United States > US

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