| Title: | Age-Related Differences in Brain Morphology and the Modifiers in Middle-Aged and Older Adults |
| Journal: | Cerebral Cortex |
| Published: | 30 Apr 2019 |
| Pubmed: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30535294/ |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhy300 |
| URL: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6931275 |
Publication 4016
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Abstract
Brain structural morphology differs with age. This study examined age-differences in surface-based morphometric measures of cortical thickness, volume, and surface area in a well-defined sample of 8137 generally healthy UK Biobank participants aged 45-79 years. We illustrate that the complexity of age-related brain morphological differences may be related to the laminar organization and regional evolutionary history of the cortex, and age of about 60 is a break point for increasing negative associations between age and brain morphology in Alzheimer's disease (AD)-prone areas. We also report novel relationships of age-related cortical differences with individual factors of sex, cognitive functions of fluid intelligence, reaction time and prospective memory, cigarette smoking, alcohol consumption, sleep disruption, genetic markers of apolipoprotein E, brain-derived neurotrophic factor, catechol-O-methyltransferase, and several genome-wide association study loci for AD and further reveal joint effects of cognitive functions, lifestyle behaviors, and education on age-related cortical differences. These findings provide one of the most extensive characterizations of age associations with major brain morphological measures and improve our understanding of normal structural brain aging and its potential modifiers.6 Authors
- Lu Zhao
- William Matloff
- Kaida Ning
- Hosung Kim
- Ivo D Dinov
- Arthur W Toga
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