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Maximum (prior) brain size, not atrophy, correlates with cognition in community-dwelling older people: a cross-sectional neuroimaging study

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Geriatrics, April 2009
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (93rd percentile)

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Title
Maximum (prior) brain size, not atrophy, correlates with cognition in community-dwelling older people: a cross-sectional neuroimaging study
Published in
BMC Geriatrics, April 2009
DOI 10.1186/1471-2318-9-12
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Authors

Susan D Shenkin, Carly S Rivers, Ian J Deary, John M Starr, Joanna M Wardlaw

Abstract

Brain size is associated with cognitive ability in adulthood (correlation approximately .3), but few studies have investigated the relationship in normal ageing, particularly beyond age 75 years. With age both brain size and fluid-type intelligence decline, and regional atrophy is often suggested as causing decline in specific cognitive abilities. However, an association between brain size and intelligence may be due to the persistence of this relationship from earlier life.

Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 41 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 4 10%
Unknown 37 90%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 22%
Researcher 9 22%
Student > Master 4 10%
Professor 3 7%
Student > Bachelor 2 5%
Other 6 15%
Unknown 8 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 9 22%
Psychology 8 20%
Sports and Recreations 3 7%
Neuroscience 3 7%
Computer Science 2 5%
Other 4 10%
Unknown 12 29%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 16. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 14 November 2019.
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#1,879,294
of 22,709,015 outputs
Outputs from BMC Geriatrics
#410
of 3,144 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#5,797
of 93,438 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Geriatrics
#1
of 4 outputs
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