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Cerebrovascular risk factors impact frontoparietal network integrity and executive function in healthy ageing

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Healthy cognitive ageing is a societal and public health priority. Cerebrovascular risk factors increase the likelihood of dementia in older people but their impact on cognitive ageing in younger, healthy brains is less clear. The UK Biobank provides cognition and brain imaging measures in the largest population cohort studied to date. Here we show that cognitive abilities of healthy individuals (N = 22,059) in this sample are detrimentally affected by cerebrovascular risk facto...

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Published
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Peer reviewed

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10.1038/s41467-020-18201-5

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MSD
Department:
Experimental Psychology
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Author
ORCID:
0000-0003-2192-378X
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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MSD
Department:
Nuffield Department of Population Health
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ORCID:
0000-0002-4516-5103
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ORCID:
0000-0001-8166-069X
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Nature Research Publisher's website
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Nature Communications Journal website
Volume:
11
Article number:
4340
Place of publication:
England
Publication date:
2020-09-07
Acceptance date:
2020-08-12
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EISSN:
2041-1723
Pmid:
32895386

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