Effects of aging on functional and structural brain connectivity.
Over the past decade there has been an enormous rise in the application of functional and structural connectivity approaches to explore the brain's intrinsic organization in healthy and clinical populations. The notion underlying the application of these approaches to study aging is that subtle age-related disruption of the brain's regional integrity and information flow across the brain, are expressed by age-related differences in functional and structural connectivity. In this review I will discus recent advances in our understanding of how age affects our brain's intrinsic organization, and I will share my perspective on potential challenges and future directions of the field.
Institute of Gerontology and Department of Psychology, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA. Electronic address: damoiseaux@wayne.edu.
Jessica S
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Damoiseaux
D000375:Aging / Q000473:pathology* / Q000502:physiology; D001921:Brain / Q000503:physiopathology*; D001931:Brain Mapping / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D009434:Neural Pathways / Q000503:physiopathology*
Aging; Brain networks; Connectivity; Diffusion MRI; Functional MRI