Study protocol: the Whitehall II imaging sub-study
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Study protocol: the Whitehall II imaging sub-study
BACKGROUND The Whitehall II (WHII) study of British civil servants provides a unique source of longitudinal data to investigate key factors hypothesized to affect brain health and cognitive ageing. This paper introduces the multi-modal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) protocol and cognitive assessment designed to investigate brain health in a random sample of 800 members of the WHII study. ME...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Psychiatry
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1471-244X
DOI: 10.1186/1471-244x-14-159