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Youthful memory capacity in old brains: anatomic and genetic clues from the Northwestern SuperAging Project.
Journal of cognitive neuroscience - 1 Jan 2013
Rogalski Emily J, Gefen Tamar, Shi Junzi, Samimi Mehrnoosh, Bigio Eileen, Weintraub Sandra, Geula Changiz, Mesulam M-Marsel
Abstract excerpt
The Northwestern University SuperAging Project recruits community dwellers over the age of 80 who have unusually high performance on tests of episodic memory. In a previous report, a small cohort of SuperAgers was found to have higher cortical thickness on structural MRI than a group of age-matched but cognitively average peers. SuperAgers also displayed a patch of ACC where cortical thickness was higher than in...
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