Rehab Magdy Hassan <br/><br/>
Relation between white matter integrity and cognitive functions in normal aging :   A diffusion tensor imaging study /  
 العلاقة بين سلامة الالياف العصبية والوظائف المعرفية عند كبار السن الاصحاء :   دراسة بواسطة تصوير موتر الانتشار 
Rehab Magdy Hassan ; Supervised Azza Abbas Helmy , Marwa Fargaly Ahmed , Ramy Edward Ibrahim 
 - Cairo :   Rehab Magdy Hassan ,   2014 
 - 139 P. :   facsimiles ;   25cm 
<br/><br/>Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Neuropsychiatry 
<br/><br/> Understanding age - related brain as extremely important to understand age-related neuropsychiatric disorders. Objective: to study the relationship between the white matter integrity and cognitive decline in normal aging. Subjects and methods: the study was conducted on 25 cognitively healthy subjects > 60 years old. selected subjects were submitted to a battery of psychometric tests that examine executive functions, information processing speed and episodic memory 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Aging Diffusion tensor imaging Information processing speed