Nature Communications (Dec 2016)

Ageing and brain white matter structure in 3,513 UK Biobank participants

  • Simon R. Cox,
  • Stuart J. Ritchie,
  • Elliot M. Tucker-Drob,
  • David C. Liewald,
  • Saskia P. Hagenaars,
  • Gail Davies,
  • Joanna M. Wardlaw,
  • Catharine R. Gale,
  • Mark E. Bastin,
  • Ian J. Deary

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13629
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Part of understanding ageing involves knowing how the brain’s connecting pathways change in healthy aging. Here, authors provide a detailed characterisation of data from 3513 UK Biobank participants, and show that the microstructure of these pathways becomes more similar with age.