The effects of normal aging on myelin and nerve fibers: A review
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- 1 January 2002
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Nature in Journal of Neurocytology
- Vol. 31 (8/9) , 581-593
- https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1025731309829
Abstract
It was believed that the cause of the cognitive decline exhibited by human and non-human primates during normal aging was a loss of cortical neurons. It is now known that significant numbers of...This publication has 20 references indexed in Scilit:
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