The Ageing brain Flashcards
1
Q
Perl (2002)
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Siblings of 100 year olds tend to live longer with lower alzheimers risk
2
Q
Swann (1992)
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MZ show more similar patterns of decline than DZ
3
Q
Blumfield and Raganath (2007)
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vPFC important to remember
4
Q
Park and Reuter-Lorenz (2009)
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PFC, hippocampus, caudate nucleus and cerebal hemisphere decrease in volume throughout life
5
Q
Driscoll (2003)
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Hippocampus goes through structural and biochemical changes in healthy aging that may be important for cognition declines
