Previous studies of healthy elderly populations combined a longitudinal design with tensor-based morphometry (TBM) and found significant gray matter (GM) atrophy over short time periods. We examined a separate healthy elderly population using a different method to determine if previous results are biologically driven, and investigated the relationship between GM and cognition. We also detected significant GM atrophy, but did not find a link between GM, age, and cognition. Our longitudinal TBM approach is sensitive to subtle, short-term GM changes, but further investigation is necessary to examine the effect of different methodological approaches on the relationship between GM and cognition.
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