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Greater intake of vitamins B6 and B12 spares gray matter in healthy elderly: a voxel-based morphometry studyKirk I Erickson
Psychology Department, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, IL 61801, USA
Brain Res 1199:20-6. 2008..These results are discussed in relation to a growing literature on vitamin intake on age-related neurocognitive deterioration...
Training-induced functional activation changes in dual-task processing: an FMRI studyKirk I Erickson
Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL 61810, USA
Cereb Cortex 17:192-204. 2007..These results are discussed in relation to the efficacy of training protocols for modulating attention and executive functions, dual-task processing, and fMRI correlates of plasticity...- Interactive effects of fitness and hormone treatment on brain health in postmenopausal womenKirk I Erickson
Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 405 N Mathews Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Neurobiol Aging 28:179-85. 2007.... - Neural correlates of dual-task performance after minimizing task-preparationKirk I Erickson
Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61810, USA
Neuroimage 28:967-79. 2005..These results are discussed in relation to current conceptions of the neural correlates of dual-task performance... - Selective sparing of brain tissue in postmenopausal women receiving hormone replacement therapyKirk I Erickson
Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 61801, USA
Neurobiol Aging 26:1205-13. 2005..HRT should be considered a possible mediator of age-related neural decline in both grey and white matter tissues... - A structural equation modeling analysis of attentional control: an event-related fMRI studyKirk I Erickson
Beckman Institute and University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 405 N Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 22:349-57. 2005..Additionally, we found that the paths were significantly lateralized to the right hemisphere. These results are discussed in relation to theories of the function of each region in attentional control... - Behavioral conflict, anterior cingulate cortex, and experiment duration: implications of diverging dataKirk I Erickson
Beckman Institute and University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana Champaign, Illinois
Hum Brain Mapp 21:98-107. 2004..In addition, we discuss the implication of our results with current conceptions of conflict and of its instantiation in the brain. Hum. Brain Mapping 21:96-105, 2004... - Training-induced plasticity in older adults: effects of training on hemispheric asymmetryKirk I Erickson
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, Department of Psychology, Urbana, IL, United States
Neurobiol Aging 28:272-83. 2007..These results provide evidence for plasticity in old age and are discussed in relation to an alternative argument for the role of reduced asymmetry in performance improvements... 
A neuroimaging investigation of the association between aerobic fitness, hippocampal volume, and memory performance in preadolescent childrenLaura Chaddock
Department of Psychology and Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Brain Res 1358:172-83. 2010..The findings are the first to indicate that aerobic fitness may relate to the structure and function of the preadolescent human brain...- Dedifferentiation in the visual cortex: an fMRI investigation of individual differences in older adultsMichelle W Voss
Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Brain Res 1244:121-31. 2008.... - A functional MRI investigation of the association between childhood aerobic fitness and neurocognitive controlLaura Chaddock
Department of Psychology and Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 405 North Mathews Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, United States
Biol Psychol 89:260-8. 2012..We suggest that higher fit children are better at activating and adapting neural processes involved in cognitive control to meet and maintain task goals... - Performance gains from directed training do not transfer to untrained tasksHyunkyu Lee
Beckman Institute, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, United States
Acta Psychol (Amst) 139:146-58. 2012.... - Effects of training strategies implemented in a complex videogame on functional connectivity of attentional networksMichelle W Voss
University of Illinois, Department of Psychology, Champaign, IL 61801, USA
Neuroimage 59:138-48. 2012..Our approach and findings also provide a foundation for exploring the brain plasticity involved in transfer of trained abilities to novel real-world tasks such as driving, sport, or neurorehabilitation... - Cardiovascular fitness, cortical plasticity, and agingStanley J Colcombe
The Beckman Institute, and Neuroscience Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 101:3316-21. 2004..These data suggest that increased cardiovascular fitness can affect improvements in the plasticity of the aging human brain, and may serve to reduce both biological and cognitive senescence in humans... - Cardiorespiratory fitness, hippocampal volume, and frequency of forgetting in older adultsAmanda N Szabo
Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Neuropsychology 25:545-53. 2011..We hypothesized that age, sex, education, body composition, and physical activity were direct determinants of fitness, which, in turn, influenced frequency of forgetting indirectly through hippocampal volume and spatial working memory... - Basal ganglia volume is associated with aerobic fitness in preadolescent childrenLaura Chaddock
Department of Psychology, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Dev Neurosci 32:249-56. 2010..Because children are becoming increasingly overweight, unhealthy and unfit, understanding the neurocognitive benefits of an active lifestyle during childhood has important public health and educational implications... - Functional connectivity: a source of variance in the association between cardiorespiratory fitness and cognition?Michelle W Voss
Beckman Institute and Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 405 N Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Neuropsychologia 48:1394-406. 2010..We provide the first evidence for functional connectivity as a source of variance in the association between aerobic fitness and cognition, and discuss results in the context of neurobiological theories of cognitive aging and disease... - The neural correlates of an expanded functional field of viewPaige E Scalf
Beckman Institute and Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 405 N Mathews, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 62:32-44. 2007..Practice with the FFOV task improves older adults' attentional function by increasing their recruitment of regions traditionally associated with orienting visual attention... - Neurocognitive aging and cardiovascular fitness: recent findings and future directionsStan J Colcombe
Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
J Mol Neurosci 24:9-14. 2004..In this manuscript, we will briefly review some of our recent research on the effects of CVF on brain function, structure, and behavior in older adults. We will then outline some of our current and future directions in this area... - Aerobic fitness reduces brain tissue loss in aging humansStanley J Colcombe
Beckman Institute, University of Illinois, Urbana 61801, USA
J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 58:176-80. 2003..CONCLUSIONS: These findings extend the scope of beneficial effects of aerobic exercise beyond cardiovascular health, and they suggest a strong solid biological basis for the benefits of exercise on the brain health of older adults... - Aerobic exercise training increases brain volume in aging humansStanley J Colcombe
Beckman Institute, Department of Psychology, University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 61:1166-70. 2006..Furthermore, these results suggest a strong biological basis for the role of aerobic fitness in maintaining and enhancing central nervous system health and cognitive functioning in older adults... - Top-down attentional control in spatially coincident stimuli enhances activity in both task-relevant and task-irrelevant regions of cortexKirk I Erickson
Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 405 North Mathews Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Behav Brain Res 197:186-97. 2009..These results support predictions made by models of selective attention and suggest an important mechanism of top-down attentional control in spatially contiguous stimuli... - Resting hippocampal blood flow, spatial memory and agingSusie Heo
Department of Psychology, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, IL, USA
Brain Res 1315:119-27. 2010..These results demonstrate a region-specific CBF-cognition relationship and thereby offer new insight into the complex connection between the aging brain and behavior... - Fitness, aging and neurocognitive functionArthur F Kramer
Beckman Institute, University of Illinois, 405 N Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Neurobiol Aging 26:124-7. 2005..In general, the results are promising and suggest that fitness may serve a neuroprotective function for aging humans... - The implications of cortical recruitment and brain morphology for individual differences in inhibitory function in aging humansStan J Colcombe
Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Psychol Aging 20:363-75. 2005..Morphological analyses revealed that frontal white matter tracts differed as a function of performance in older adults, suggesting that hemispheric connectivity might impact both patterns of recruitment and cognitive performance... - Exercise, cognition, and the aging brainArthur F Kramer
Beckman Institute, University of Illinois, 405 North Mathews Ave, Urbana, 61801, USA
J Appl Physiol 101:1237-42. 2006..Finally, we conclude with a summary and brief discussion of important future directions of research on fitness cognition and brain... - Capitalizing on cortical plasticity: influence of physical activity on cognition and brain functionArthur F Kramer
Beckman Institute and Department of Psychology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Trends Cogn Sci 11:342-8. 2007.... - Cardiorespiratory fitness: A predictor of cortical plasticity in multiple sclerosisRuchika Shaurya Prakash
Beckman Institute and Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, IL 61801, USA
Neuroimage 34:1238-44. 2007.... - Predicting individuals' learning success from patterns of pre-learning MRI activityLoan T K Vo
Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America
PLoS ONE 6:e16093. 2011.... - Attentional control in the aging brain: insights from an fMRI study of the stroop taskMichael P Milham
The Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 61801, USA
Brain Cogn 49:277-96. 2002..g., detecting potential for error), showed age-related increases in its sensitivity to the presence of competing color information. These findings are discussed in terms of newly emerging models of attentional control in the human brain... - Be smart, exercise your heart: exercise effects on brain and cognitionCharles H Hillman
Charles H Hillman is at the Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, 213 Louise Freer Hall, 906 South Goodwin Avenue, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
Nat Rev Neurosci 9:58-65. 2008..A growing number of studies support the idea that physical exercise is a lifestyle factor that might lead to increased physical and mental health throughout life... - Cortical recruitment during selective attention in multiple sclerosis: an fMRI investigation of individual differencesRuchika Shaurya Prakash
Beckman Institute and Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, United States
Neuropsychologia 46:2888-95. 2008..Future studies specifically investigating the nature of additional activation seen in MS patients in a wider variety of cognitive tasks would provide insight into the specific cognitive decline in MS... - Effects of physical activity on cognition, well-being, and brain: Human interventionsArthur F Kramer
Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
Alzheimers Dement 3:S45-51. 2007..Although there are currently few human intervention studies that have examined fitness effects on human brain function and structure, the studies that have been conducted report promising results... - Memory enhancement by a semantically unrelated emotional arousal source induced after learningKristy A Nielson
Department of Psychology, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI 53201 1881, USA
Neurobiol Learn Mem 84:49-56. 2005..Potential reasons for contradictory findings in some previous studies, such as the timing of "delayed" memory tests, are discussed... - Brain anatomy differences in childhood stutteringSoo Eun Chang
Laryngeal and Speech Section, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Neuroimage 39:1333-44. 2008..These findings point to the importance of considering the role of neuroplasticity during development when studying persistent forms of developmental disorders in adults...