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

Authors :: Michele Veldsman
Xin-You Tai
Thomas Nichols
Steve Smith
João Peixoto
Sanjay Manohar
Masud Husain
Source :: Nature Communications, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-10 (2020)
Publication Year :: 2020
Publisher :: Nature Portfolio, 2020.
Abstract: Cerebrovascular risk factors reduce cognitive performance via changes in the integrity of a frontoparietal brain network in ageing. Modification of blood pressure, with antihypertensive treatment in mid-life, mitigates against cognitive decline over a specific blood pressure range.

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